Talk:Hierophany

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This article, as of January 2012, is too dependent upon the work of historian Mircea Eliade. There are some good discussions out there, for example see Arvind Sharma A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion, Chapter 6, section 8, pages pages 107 and following. --Bejnar (talk) 18:55, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
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 * 2. Hierophany denotes "the act of manifestation of the sacred," in other words, "that something sacred shows itself to us" (Eliade 1959:11). Maureen Korp (1997) argues that Eliade's notion of kratophany provides a better means of understanding contemporary sacred landscapes (and earth art, the focus of her book). In his Patterns in Companytive Religion (1958), Eliade suggested this term to denote "manifestations of power" (14), but he later dropped it in favor of the more general hierophany and the less ambiguous theophany (manifestations of divinity or diety). Jonathan Z. Smith's influential reconsideration of Eliade (1972) launched the first in a series of critiques which have made Eliade's name somewhat passé among religious studies scholars. Nevertheless, his thinking continues to inform scholarship in the phenomenology of sacred space and pilgrimage (e.g., Brenneman, Yarian, and Olson 1982; Seamon and Mugerauer 1985; Lane, 1988; Walter 1988; Swan 1991; Korp 1997; Prokop 1997; and see Grimes's 1999 critique of J. Z. Smith), and it underlies much popular writing on these topics. On the debate over Eliade, see Idinopulos and Yonan 1994, and Rennie 2000.

--Bejnar (talk) 20:44, 25 January 2013 (UTC)