Comparing Religions: Possibilities and Perils?Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos, Brian C. Wilson, James Constantine Hanges Preliminary Material /Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos , Brian C. Wilson and James Constantine Hanges -- Comparison as a Theoretical Exercise /Anthony J. Blasi -- Questions of Judgment in Comparative Religious Studies /George Weckman -- The Role of the Authoritative in the Comparative Process /David Cave -- The Mothering Principle in the Comparison of Religions /Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos -- Theaters of Worldmaking Behaviors: Panhuman Contexts for Comparative Religion /William E. Paden -- Comparing Religious Ideas: There's Method in the Mob's Madness /Wesley J. Wildman -- Comparative Religion for Undergraduates: What Next? /John Stratton Hawley -- Socrates and Jesus: Comparing Founder-Figures in the Classroom /James Constantine Hanges -- Christianity's Emergence from Judaism: The Plus and Minus of Joseph Klausner's Comparative Analysis /Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos -- Interpreting Glossolalia and the Comparison of Comparisons /James Constantine Hanges -- Orientalism and the Comparison of Religions /Arvind Sharma -- Circling the Wagons: The Problem with the Insider/Outsider in the Comparative Study of Religion /Russell T. McCutcheon -- Postmodernism and the Comparative Method /Robert Segal -- The Only Kind of Comparison Worth Doing: History, Epistemology, and the “Strong Program” of Comparative Study /Ivan Strenski -- Bibliography /Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos , Brian C. Wilson and James Constantine Hanges -- Index of Names /Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos , Brian C. Wilson and James Constantine Hanges -- Index of Subjects /Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos , Brian C. Wilson and James Constantine Hanges. |
Contents
COMPARISON OF RELIGIONS IN THE STUDY AND THE CLASSROOM | 75 |
Part Three POSTCOLONIALISM POSTMODERNISM MODERNISM IN THE COMPARISON OF RELIGION | 219 |
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