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- Title
Wozu Postkolonialismus, Diskurstheorie und Religionsästhetik?: Überlegungen zu ihrem Nutzen für die religionsgeschichtliche Forschung (am Beispiel der Azteken).
- Authors
Laack, Isabel
- Abstract
Criticizing the seemingly exclusive focus on metatheory and discursive genealogies of religion in recent debates in the study of religion, some scholars underscored the crucial role of historical research about non-European cultures for any theorizing about religion. This article shares their intention to reconsolidate historical studies as vital part of an integrative disciplinary identity, yet argues reversely: How is historical research affected by the metatheoretical approaches of postcolonialism, discourse theory, and aesthetics of religion? This question is discussed by the example of Aztec deity conceptions. Using a postcolonial and discursive approach, I deconstruct León-Portillas popular thesis about an Aztec school of philosophers intuiting the one and only, transcendent divine principle. Using an aesthetics of religion perspective, I suggest an alternative interpretation of one argumentative detail, the cultural meanings associated with the deity title Yohualli Ehecatl.
- Subjects
AZTECS; RELIGIONS; MONOTHEISM
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft, 2021, Vol 29, Issue 2, p186
- ISSN
0943-8610
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zfr-2021-0002