Comparing Religions : Possibilities and Perils?
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (338 pages)
- Numen Book Series ; v.113 .
- Numen Book Series .
Intro -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- Part One THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COMPARISON -- CHAPTER ONE COMPARISON AS A THEORETICAL EXERCISE --- Anthony J. Blasi -- CHAPTER TWO QUESTIONS OF JUDGMENT IN COMPARATIVE RELIGIOUS STUDIES --- George Weckman -- CHAPTER THREE THE ROLE OF THE AUTHORITATIVE IN THE COMPARATIVE PROCESS --- David Cave -- CHAPTER FOUR THE MOTHERING PRINCIPLE IN THE COMPARISON OF RELIGIONS --- Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos -- CHAPTER FIVE THEATERS OF WORLDMAKING BEHAVIORS: PANHUMAN CONTEXTS FOR COMPARATIVE RELIGION --- William E. Paden -- Part Two THEORY INTO METHOD: COMPARISON OF RELIGIONS IN THE STUDY AND THE CLASSROOM -- CHAPTER SIX COMPARING RELIGIOUS IDEAS: THERE'S METHOD IN THE MOB'S MADNESS --- Wesley J. Wildman -- CHAPTER SEVEN COMPARATIVE RELIGION FOR UNDERGRADUATES: WHAT NEXT? --- John Stratton Hawley -- CHAPTER EIGHT SOCRATES AND JESUS: COMPARING FOUNDER-FIGURES IN THE CLASSROOM --- James Constantine Hanges -- CHAPTER NINE CHRISTIANITY'S EMERGENCE FROM JUDAISM: THE PLUS AND MINUS OF JOSEPH KLAUSNER'S COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS --- Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos -- CHAPTER TEN INTERPRETING GLOSSOLALIA AND THE COMPARISON OF COMPARISONS --- James Constantine Hanges -- Part Three POSTCOLONIALISM, POSTMODERNISM, MODERNISM IN THE COMPARISON OF RELIGION -- CHAPTER ELEVEN ORIENTALISM AND THE COMPARISON OF RELIGIONS --- Arvind Sharma -- CHAPTER TWELVE CIRCLING THE WAGONS: THE PROBLEM WITH THE INSIDER/OUTSIDER IN THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGION --- Russell T. McCutcheon -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN POSTMODERNISM AND THE COMPARATIVE METHOD --- Robert Segal -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE ONLY KIND OF COMPARISON WORTH DOING: HISTORY, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND THE "STRONG PROGRAM" OF COMPARATIVE STUDY --- Ivan Strenski -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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Religion--Methodology. Religion--Study and teaching. Religions.