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The World's Religious Traditions : Current Perspectives in Religious Studies.
"The aim of this book is to make a major contribution to the field of religious studies while at the same time paying tribute to the work of Wilfred Smith. Although the basis of the chapters is provided by Smith's themes of faith and tradition and Smith's approach to the study of reli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2016.
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| Colección: | Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; A. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY; NOTES; B. FAITH AND TRADITION IN THE WORLD'S RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS; 1. The Hindu Tradition: The Vedic Root; NOTES; 2. The Confucian Tradition: A Confucian Perspective in Learning to be Human; I. LEARNING FOR THE SAKE OF THE SELF; II. UNDERSTANDING THROUGH INQUIRY; III. CENTRALITY OF SELF-CULTIVATION; IV. FROM A PERSONAL POINT OF VIEW; V. CONFUCIUS AS AN EXEMPLAR; VI. ULTIMATE MEANING IN ORDINARY EXISTENCE; NOTES; 3. The Jewish Tradition; NOTES; 4. The Christian Tradition; INTRODUCTION.
- I FOUR DEGREES OF SPECIFICITY IN FAITHII THE FOUR TEMPORAL LOCI OR MOMENTS OF SALVATION: ETERNAL, HISTORIC, EVERPRESENT, AND ESCHATOLOGICAL; Ill CHRISTIANITY AND THE COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF RELIGION ; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 5. The Muslim Tradition; NOTES; C. CURRENT APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION; 1. Religious Pluralism; NOTES; 2. The Critical Appropriation of Traditions: Theology and the Comparative History of Religion; I; II; III; 3. The Philosophia Perennis and the Study of Religion; NOTES; 4. The Dialogical Dialogue; INTRODUCTION; I. BACKGROUND; II. THESIS; III. DIALOGUE AND DIALECTICS.
- IV. DIALECTICAL DIALOGUEV. DIALOGICAL DIALOGUE; VI. THINKING AND BEING; VII. SUBJECT AND OBJECT; VIII. I AND THOU; IX. MYTH AND LOGOS; APPENDIX; 5. Bangalore Revisited: Balancing Understanding and Evaluation in the Comparative Study of Religion; 6. Thematic Comparison; NOTES; 7. Scientific Phenomenology and Wilfred Cantwell Smith's Misgivings; D. BIBLIOGRAPHY The works of Wilfred Cantwell Smith; E. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; F. INDEX.