Interreligious comparisons in religious studies and theology: comparison revisited
Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Perry Schmidt-Leukel and Andreas Nehring -- Part I. Comparison: Contestation and Defence. Chapter 1. Comparative Methodology and the Religious Studies Toolkit / Paul Hedges ; Chapter 2. Comparison in the Maelstrom of Historicity: A Postcolonial Pers...
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Bloomsbury
2016
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2016 |
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| Reviews: | Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology, Perry Schmidt-Leukel and Andreas Nehring (eds), Bloomsbury, 2016 (ISBN 978-1-4742-8513-1), pp. x + 228, hb £65 (2017) (O'Leary, Joseph Stephen, 1949 -)
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Religion
/ Science of Religion
/ The Postmodern
/ Postcolonialism
/ Interfaith dialogue
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Collection of essays
B Religion Methodology B Electronic books B Religions |
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| Summary: | Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Perry Schmidt-Leukel and Andreas Nehring -- Part I. Comparison: Contestation and Defence. Chapter 1. Comparative Methodology and the Religious Studies Toolkit / Paul Hedges ; Chapter 2. Comparison in the Maelstrom of Historicity: A Postcolonial Perspective on Comparative Religion / Michael Bergunder ; Chapter 3. Modes of Comparison: Towards Creating a Methodological Framework for Comparative Studies / Oliver Freiberger ; Chapter 4. Comparison as a Necessary Evil: Examples from Indian and Jewish Worlds / Philippe Bornet -- Part II. Phenomenology and the Foundations of Comparison. Chapter 5. Camouflage of the Sacred: Can We Still Branch Off from Eliade's Comparative Approach? / Andreas Nehring ; Chapter 6. The Singular and the Shared: Making Amends to Eliade after the Dismissal of the Sacred / Kenneth Rose ; Chapter 7. Religious Practice and the Nature of the Human / Gavin Flood ; Chapter 8. On All-Embracing Mental Structures: Towards a Transcendental Hermeneutics of Religion / Fabian Völker -- Part III. Reciprocal Illumination and Comparative Theology. Chapter 9. Comparative Theology and Comparative Religion / Klaus von Stosch ; Chapter 10. Reciprocal Illumination / Arvind Sharma ; Chapter 11. On Creativity, Participation and Normativity: Comparative Theology in Discussion with Arvind Sharma's Reciprocal Illumination / Ulrich Winkler ; Chapter 12. Christ as Bodhisattva: A Case of Reciprocal Illumination / Perry Schmidt-Leukel -- Index. "Can religions be compared? For decades the discipline of religious studies was based on the assumption that they can. Postmodern and postcolonial reflections, however, raised significant doubts. In social and cultural studies the investigation of the particular often took precedence over a comparative perspective. Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology questions whether religious studies can survive if it ceases to be comparative religion. Can it do justice to a globalized world if it is limited on the specific and turns a blind eye on the general? While comparative approaches have come under strong pressure in religious studies, they have started flourishing in Theology. Comparative theology practices interfaith dialogue by means of comparative research. This volume asks whether theology and religious studies are able to mutually benefit from their critical and constructive reflections. Can postcolonial criticism of neutrality and objectivity in religious studies create new links with the decidedly perspectival approach of comparative theology? In this collection scholars from theology and religious studies discuss the methodology of interreligious comparison in the light of recent doubts and current objections. Together with the contributors, Perry Schmidt-Leukel and Andreas Nehring argue that after decades of critique, interreligious comparison deserves to be reconsidered, reconstructed and reintroduced."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1474285163 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9781474285162 |