The Encyclopedic Impulse in Religious Studies
It is no mere coincidence that the ongoing revolution in information technology has coincided with an explosive increase of reference works, not the least in religious studies and biblical studies. The unprecedented production rate of such works today led one scholar to dub our times “a golden age o...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Опубликовано: |
[2015]
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Relegere
Год: 2015, Том: 5, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 157-166 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Reference Works
B Encyclopedias |
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| Итог: | It is no mere coincidence that the ongoing revolution in information technology has coincided with an explosive increase of reference works, not the least in religious studies and biblical studies. The unprecedented production rate of such works today led one scholar to dub our times “a golden age of reference books,” resulting in the challenge of “oversupply.” This article reflects historically upon the basic impulse behind the conceptualizing, planning, and production of large encyclopedias in religious and biblical studies: the sense of information overload, and the desire to bring order to it. |
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| ISSN: | 1179-7231 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Relegere
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.11157/rsrr5-2-675 |
