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Figuring religions : comparing ideas, images, and activities /
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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2013]
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.