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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1. VerfasserIn: Schmidt-Leukel, Perry 1954- (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Nehring, Andreas (MitwirkendeR)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: London Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2016
In:Jahr: 2016
Rezensionen: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 -)
Ausgabe:1st ed.
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Religionswissenschaft / Theologie / Religionsvergleich
RelBib Classification:AA Religionswissenschaft
AX Interreligiöse Beziehungen
FA Theologie
weitere Schlagwörter:B Aufsatzsammlung
B Electronic books
B Religions
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Print version: Schmidt-Leukel, Perry: Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology : Comparison Revisited. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing,c2016. - 9781474285131
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Zusammenfassung: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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ISBN:1474285147