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A magic still dwells : comparative religion in the postmodern age /
The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of re...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2000.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: in comparison a magic dwells / Jonathan Z. Smith
- pt. 1. Comparative religion: the state of the field. The scholar as mythographer: comparative Indo-European myth and postmodern concerns / David Gordon White ; Contested identities: the study of Buddhism in the postmodern world / Malcolm David Eckel ; Post-modern and -colonial -structural comparisons / Wendy Doniger
- pt. 2. Case studies: critical issues in the history of religions. What's beyond the post? comparative analysis as critical method / Barbara A. Holdrege ; The contextual illusion: comparative mysticism and postmodernism / Jonathan R. Herman ; Discourse about difference: understanding African ritual language / Benjamin Caleb Ray ; American religion is naturally comparative / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan ; Dialogue and method: reconstructing the study of religion / Diana L. Eck
- pt. 3. A revised comparison: new justifications for comparative study. Juggling torches: why we still need comparative religion / Kimberley C. Patton ; Methodology, comparisons, and truth / Huston Smith ; Elements of a new comparativism / William E. Paden ; The magic in miniature: etymological links in comparative religions / Laurie L. Patton ; The net of Indra: comparison and the contribution of perception / Lawrence E. Sullivan ; Epilogue: the "end" of comparison: redescription and rectification / Jonathan Z. Smith.