Comparing religions [[electronic resource] ] : possibilities and perils? / / edited by Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos, Brian C. Wilson, and James Constantine Hanges

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784820603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2006
• ISBN: 1-281-39982-5; 9786611399825; 90-474-1040-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Collana: Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, , 0169-8834 ; ; v. 113
• Altri autori (Persone): HangesJames Constantine <1954->; IdinopulosThomas A; WilsonBrian C
• Disciplina: 200.7
• Soggetti: Religion - Methodology; Religion - Study and teaching; Religions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-311) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Towards a post-colonial comparative religion? : comparing Hinduism and Islam as Orientalist constructions / Arvind ; Sharma -- Circling the wagons : the problem with the insider/outsider in the comparative study of religions / Russell T. McCutcheon -- The postmodernist challenge to the comparative method / Robert A. Segal -- The only kind of comparison worth doing : history, epistemology, and the "strong program" of comparative study / Ivan Strenski.