What Do We Compare When We Compare Religions?: Philosophical Remarks on the Psychology of Studying Comparative Religion Abroad

The issue of comparison is a vexing one in religious and theological studies, not least for teachers of comparative religion in study abroad settings. We try to make familiar ideas fresh and strange, in settings where students may find it hard not to take "fresh" and "strange" as...

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Main Author: Irvine, Andrew B. (Author)
Contributors: Barbour, John D. (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2015]
In: Teaching theology and religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 46-55
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
AH Religious education
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Pedagogy
B experiential education
B Oh event
B Shame
B Comparative Religion
B Psychology of learning
B Confucianism
B Cross-cultural understanding
B Existentialism
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