Comparison Considered: Some Methodological Responses
The present issue’s review symposium on comparison comprises six thoughtful and stimulating essays in which the authors, in conversation with Bruce Lincoln’s Apples and Oranges (2018) and my Considering Comparison (2019), reflect on the comparative method and on how it relates to their work. Their r...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 495-508 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Comparative religion
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Comparison
B category formation B Religion B Metalanguage B Bruce Lincoln B Object Language |
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| Summary: | The present issue’s review symposium on comparison comprises six thoughtful and stimulating essays in which the authors, in conversation with Bruce Lincoln’s Apples and Oranges (2018) and my Considering Comparison (2019), reflect on the comparative method and on how it relates to their work. Their reflections are explorative, productive, thought-provoking, and they also criticize and challenge aspects of our books in constructive ways, each from the perspective of their own field of expertise. In this response I discuss the methodological questions that each essay raised for me and, at times, propose a potential way forward. The symposium shows that exploring the comparative method can be useful and rewarding not only for explicit cross-cultural research, but also for research projects that do not seem comparative at first glance. I argue that since studying religion—a highly comparative category—is inherently comparative, the methodology of comparison deserves proper attention. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Reference: | Kritik von "Chastening and Disciplining Comparison (2020)"
Kritik von "Inevitably Comparative, but Not Inevitably Positive (2020)" Kritik von "Comparison and the Academic Study of Indigenous Religious Traditions (2020)" Kritik von "Comparing ‘Religion’ and ‘Nonreligion’ (2020)" Kritik von "Is There a Difference Between “Religion” and “Politics”? (2020)" Kritik von "The Comparative Method in the Study of Religion and Race (2020)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341492 |