Comparing Religions Coming to Terms.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kripal, Jeffrey J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Praise for Comparing Religions
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • About the website
  • An Important Note to the Instructor: Or Why You Should (or Should Not) Teach This Text
  • A Comment on the Cover Image and the Paintings
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I: Prehistory, Preparation, and Perspective
  • Introduction: Beginnings
  • Notes
  • 1 Comparative Practices in Global History: If Horses Had Hands
  • The Comparative Practices of Polytheism
  • The Comparative Practices of Monotheism: Early Judaism
  • The Comparative Practices of Monotheism: Early Christianity
  • The Comparative Practices of Monotheism: Early Islam
  • The Comparative Practices of Asia: Hinduism
  • The Comparative Practices of Asia: Sikhism
  • The Comparative Practices of Asia: Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism in China
  • The Tough Questions
  • Notes
  • 2 Western Origins and History of the Modern Practice: From the Bible to Buddhism
  • Deep Upstream: Mystical Humanists, Protesters, Rationalists, and Romantics
  • Mid-Upstream: "Not as Moses Said," or the Biblical Beginnings of Critical Theory
  • Just Upstream: Colonialism and the Modern Births of Spirituality and Fundamentalism
  • The Immediate Wake: Counterculture, Consciousness, Context, and Cosmopolitanism
  • The Tough Questions
  • Notes
  • 3 The Skill of Reflexivity and Some Key Categories: The Terms of Our Time Travel
  • The History of Religions
  • Patterns of Initiation
  • The Humanities: Consciousness Studying Consciousness
  • Cultural Anthropology and Initiation Rites
  • Working Definitions and Their Histories
  • The Uncertainty Principle: The Insider-Outsider Problem (and Promise)
  • Religious Questions as Ultimate Concerns
  • The Tough Questions
  • Notes
  • PART II: Comparative Acts
  • 4 The Creative Functions of Myth and Ritual: Performing the World
  • Myth: Telling the Story Telling Us
  • Ritual: Acting Out the Story Acting Us
  • Patterns in Myth
  • Patterns in Ritual
  • Comparative Practice: The Awakened One and the Great Hero in Ancient India
  • Beginning a Toolkit
  • The Tough Questions
  • Notes
  • 5 Religion, Nature, and Science: The Super Natural
  • Religion and Contemporary Science
  • The Paradox of the Super Natural
  • Food and Purity Codes: "You Are What You Eat"
  • New Directions: Space Exploration, Dark Green Religion, and Popular Culture
  • Comparative Practice: The Human Plant
  • The Toolkit
  • The Tough Questions
  • Notes
  • 6 Sex and the Bodies of Religion: Seed and Soil
  • In the Beginning ...
  • The Social Body: Sexuality, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
  • Sex and Transgression
  • Super Sexualities
  • The Sexual Ignorance of the Religions
  • Comparative Practice: The Two Ann(e)s
  • The Toolkit
  • The Tough Questions
  • Notes
  • 7 Charisma and the Social Dimensions of Religion: Transmitting the Power
  • Charisma and Community

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