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Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism) (Reprint Edition) by Jonathan Z. Smith Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 1988 ISBN-10: 0-226-76360-9 / 0226763609 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-76360-6 / 9780226763606 With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the |