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William Robertson Smith
"The essays presented here cover the following topics: the late nineteenth-century context of Smith's life and work, his international connections and influence ; and his work as biblical scholar, enclopaedist, social anthropologist, Arabist and orientalist." -- back cover.
A Plain View
Excerpt from A Plain View: Of the Case of Professor W. Robertson Smith One who, after long residence abroad, comes home to find his Church in a state of considerable excitement, and to some extent at war within itself, about a theological question that has suddenly arisen, can hardly help inquiring into the cause of the agitation around him. And any inquiry he may make is made at least with this advantage - that he can judge dispassionately with greater ease than those whose circumstances have tended to draw them into argument before the issues were clearly stated or fully understood. And if upon inquiry it appear to such a one that much of the excitement is unnecessary, it is his duty to do...
Lectures & Essays of William Robertson Smith
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W. Robertson Smith and the Sociological Study of Religion
William Robertson Smith (1846-94) was one of the most profound and versatile Victorian thinkers--a principal figure in the development of social anthropology and the founder of modern sociology of religion. In W. Robertson Smith and the Sociological Study of Religion, T. O. Beidelman, a renowned anthropologist and ethnographer, relates Smith's personality and career to the radical nature of his investigations. His study contains the only readily available account of Smith's life, and represents the only attempt to place Smith's work within the contemporary perspective of the field of social studies. Professor Beidelman discusses how Smith introduced to Britain the revolutionary interpretatio...
A Plain View of the Case of Professor W. Robertson Smith
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
