Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology: Comparison Revisited
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Part 1 Comparison: Contestation and Defence -- Chapter 1 Comparative Methodology and the Religious Studies Toolkit -- Introduction -- Eliade and Smart: Comparativists and phenomenol...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Reviews: | Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology, Perry Schmidt-Leukel and Andreas Nehring (eds), Bloomsbury, 2016 (ISBN 978-1-4742-8513-1), pp. x + 228, hb £65 (2017) (O'Leary, Joseph Stephen, 1949 -)
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Science of Religion
/ Theology
/ Comparison of religions
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AX Inter-religious relations FA Theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Electronic books B Religions |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Print version: Schmidt-Leukel, Perry: Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology : Comparison Revisited. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing,c2016. - 9781474285131 |
| Summary: | Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Part 1 Comparison: Contestation and Defence -- Chapter 1 Comparative Methodology and the Religious Studies Toolkit -- Introduction -- Eliade and Smart: Comparativists and phenomenologists -- Religion: Contested category of comparison -- Comparative theology: Data for the religious studies scholar? -- Revivals of comparative religion: Gavin Flood and others -- Comparative religion in the toolkit -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Comparison in the Maelstrom of Historicity: A Postcolonial Perspective on Comparative Religion -- ' Postmodernist Critique ' of comparative religion -- Debates in social sciences on Eurocentrism and comparison -- Historicizing the point of comparison in comparative religion -- Towards a global religious history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Modes of Comparison: Towards Creating a Methodological Framework for Comparative Studies -- Smith ' s model: Ethnographic, encyclopaedic, morphological and evolutionary modes -- Carter ' s model: Descriptive and explanatory comparison -- Freidenreich ' s model: Similarity and difference -- genus and species -- Modes with potential: The illuminative mode and the taxonomic mode -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Comparison as a Necessary Evil: Examples from Indian and Jewish Worlds -- Introduction -- Comparing comparisons -- Comparison in practice: Hospitality in rabbinic and brahmanical normative literature -- Comparative analysis -- Comparison as a tool for ' de-provincializing ' the study of religions -- Notes -- References -- Part 2 Phenomenology and the Foundations of Comparison -- Chapter 5 Camouflage of the Sacred: Can We Still Branch Off from Eliade ' s Comparative Approach?. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 1474285147 |