Regimes of comparatism: frameworks of comparison in history, religion and anthropology
Introduction: Regimes of Comparatism /Renaud Gagné -- Comparisons Compared: A Study in the Early Modern Roots of Cultural History /Anthony Grafton -- What Was the Comparative History of Religions in 17th-Century Europe (and Beyond)? Pagan Monotheism/Pagan Animism, from T’ien to Tylor /Dmitri Levitin...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Reviews: | Renaud Gagné, Simon Goldhill and Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd, ed. (2019) (Uehlinger, Christoph, 1958 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Jerusalem studies in religion and culture
volume 24 Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Comparative research
/ History
/ Religion
/ Anthropology
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| Further subjects: | B
Comparison (Philosophy)
B Anthropology B History B Religions |
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| Summary: | Introduction: Regimes of Comparatism /Renaud Gagné -- Comparisons Compared: A Study in the Early Modern Roots of Cultural History /Anthony Grafton -- What Was the Comparative History of Religions in 17th-Century Europe (and Beyond)? Pagan Monotheism/Pagan Animism, from T’ien to Tylor /Dmitri Levitin -- Comparing Cultures in the Early Modern World: Hierarchies, Genealogies and the Idea of European Modernity /Joan-Pau Rubiés -- Comparison and Christianity: Sacrifice in the Age of the Encyclopedia /Jonathan Sheehan -- The Isis of Turin Affair /Renaud Gagné -- What Has Alexandria to Do with Jerusalem?: Writing the History of the Jews in the 19th Century /Simon Goldhill -- Akbar’s Dream: The Mughal Emperor in Nineteenth-Century Literature /Phiroze Vasunia -- History of Religions: The Comparative Moment /Guy G. Stroumsa -- Going Full Frontal: Two Modalities of Comparison in Social Anthropology /Matei Candea -- Placing Self Amid Others: A Mongolian Technique of Comparison /Caroline Humphrey -- Anthropological Comparatisms: Generalisation, Symmetrisation, Bifurcation /Philippe Descola -- Friendship and Kinship: Comparatism and Its Theoretical Possibilities in Anthropology /Marilyn Strathern -- The Fortunes of Comparatism: History, Anthropology, Philosophy /Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd. Historically, all societies have used comparison to analyze cultural difference through the interaction of religion, power, and translation. When comparison is a self-reflective practice, it can be seen as a form of comparatism. Many scholars are concerned in one way or another with the practice and methods of comparison, and the need for a cognitively robust relativism is an integral part of a mature historical self-placement. This volume looks at how different theories and practices of writing and interpretation have developed at different times in different cultures and reconsiders the specificities of modern comparative approaches within a variety of comparative moments. The idea is to reconsider the specificities, the obstacles, and the possibilities of modern comparative approaches in history and anthropology through a variety of earlier and parallel comparative horizons. Particular attention is given to the exceptional role of Athens and Jerusalem in shaping the Western understanding of cultural difference |
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| ISBN: | 9004387633 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004387638 |