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Record Nr.

UNISA996248059803316

Titolo

Ultimate realities / / edited by Robert Cummings Neville ; foreword by Tu Weiming [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2001

ISBN

0-7914-4776-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvi, 363 p. )

Collana

The comparative religious ideas project

Altri autori (Persone)

NevilleRobert C

Disciplina

291.2

Soggetti

Religion - Philosophy

Reality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Ultimate reality: Chinese religion / Livia Kohn with James Miller -- Ultimate realities: Judaism: God as a many-sided ultimate reality in traditional Judaism / Anthony J. Saldarini -- Ultimate reality in ancient Christianity: Christ and redemption / Paula Fredriksen -- Ultimate reality: Islam / S. Nomanul Haq -- Vedānta Deśika's Īśvarapariccheda ("Definition of the Lord") and the Hindu argument about ultimate reality / Francis X. Clooney with Hugh Nicholson -- Cooking the last fruit of nihilism: Buddhist approaches to ultimate reality / Malcolm David Eckel with John J. Thatamanil -- Comparative conclusions about ultimate realities / Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman -- On comparing religious ideas / Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman -- How our approach to comparison relates to others / Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville -- The idea of categories in historical comparative perspective / John H. Berthrong -- Appendix A: On the process of the project during the second year / Wesley J. Wildman -- Appendix B: Suggestions for further reading.