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This book offers ways of comparing prominent features of the world's religions. Comparison has been at the heart of religious studies as a modern academic discipline, but comparison can be problematic. Scholars of religion have been faulted for ignoring or reinterpreting differences to create a...

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Otros Autores: Pathak, Shubha, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Religions.
RELIGION > Reference.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Marking religion's boundaries : constitutive terms, orienting tropes, and exegetical fussiness / Thomas A. Tweed -- "Epic" as an amnesiac metaphor : finding the word to compare ancient Greek and Sanskrit poems / Shubha Pathak -- Conceptions of the self in the Zhuangzi : conceptual metaphor analysis and comparative thought / Edward Slingerland -- Theorizing embodiment : conceptual metaphor theory and the comparative study of religion / James Egge -- Bathed in milk : metaphors of suckling and spiritual transmission in thirteenth-century Kabbalah / Ellen Haskell -- Metaphors and images of dress and nakedness : wrappings of embodied identity / Terhi Utriainen -- Poetry, ritual, and associated thought in early India and elsewhere / Laurie L. Patton -- Spatial metaphors and women's religious activities in ancient Greece and China / Yiqun Zhou -- In search of equivalence : conceiving Muslim-Hindu encounter through translation theory / Tony K. Stewart -- Afterword / Glen Alexander Hayes. 
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