Orientalismo religiosouna reflexión desde la filología
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Universidad de La Laguna
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ISSN: 1575-8621
Datum der Publikation: 2023
Titel der Ausgabe: El arte de envejecer. Representaciones culturales de la vejez
Nummer: 38-39
Seiten: 75-84
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Nerter: Revista dedicada a la literatura, el arte y el conocimiento
Zusammenfassung
This essay aims at expanding on the genesis of Orientalism as a religious construction, and whose practice has been exercised through philology. To that end, I have tailored the following approach as a chronological journey that starts in the Roman Empire, and culminates in the colonial episode. I initially draw a thin line on the crystallization of monotheistic religions as a resulting perversion of the term “religio,” to later add a discussion of the Bible as the first piece of Oriental material. I conclude by inspecting some of the contributions made by Orientalists, and their centripetal repercussion into the theological paradigm.