Map Is Not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions

In Map Is Not Territory, Jonathan Z. Smith engages previous interpretations of religious texts from late antiquity, critically evaluates the notion of sacred space and time as it is represented in the works of Mircea Eliade, and tackles important problems of methodology.

Jonathan Z. Smith is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he is also a member of the Committee on History of Culture. Among his numerous publications are Imagining Religion, To Take Place, and Drudgery Divine, all published by the University of Chicago Press.