“What the One Thing Shows Me in the Case of Two Things”: Comparison as Essential to a Proper Academic Study of Religion
Comparison is a fundamental operation in the milieu of the remarkable abilities of human beings to transcend themselves in acts of perception and the accumulation of knowledge. Comparison is holding together things that are at once the same and different. The very possibility of the copresence of sa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 34, Issue: 4, Pages: 309-327 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Smith, Jonathan Z. 1938-2017
/ Comparative religion
/ Methodology
/ Simile
/ Heuristic
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Comparison
B discovery B Australian Aborigines B proper study of religion B Jonathan Z. Smith |
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