Contemporary Views on Comparative Religion
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Comparative Religion is deeply rooted in historical-philological studies, but since the inception of the discipline in the late nineteenth century, a continual development has taken place. Since that time, the discipline has moved into many different areas of the social, humanistic, psychological and biological sciences, and debates on theory and method are as intense as ever. As scholars of religion get to grips with some aspects of the phenomenon in question, new problems arise, and new challenges must be met. At the same time, however, the virtues of the past should not be forgotten, and a double orientation, back and forth, becomes necessary. Rather than pursuing a systematic discussion of how to go about such problems, this volume celebrates the diversity and multi-methodological approaches in comparative religion by including empirical, as well as theoretical, approaches.The authors, among whom are many of the world's leading scholars, have been asked to contribute essays on the current state of comparative religion, and thanks to their efforts the reader is offered a pathway to exciting, but quite diverse, examples of the discipline, from the well-known to the most recent academic frontiers.

Table of Contents:
1. INTRODUCTIONPeter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Mikael Rothstein2. THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGION Ivan Strenski: What Kind of Magic Dwells in Comparison?Morny Joy: Challenges to Comparative ReligionLuther H. Martin: Comparison and the History of ReligionsJorgen Podemann Sorensen: The Historical and Comparative Study of ReligionsAnders Klostergaard Petersen and Jesper Sorensen: Taking ComparativismSeriouslyGiulia Sfameni Gasparro: A Method without Explanaatory TheoryLaura Feldt: Myth, Space, and the History of Religions3. CONCEPTIONS OF RELIGION AND 'THE RELIGIOUS'Jeppe Sinding Jensen: A Theoretical Object for the History of ReligionsOlav Hammer: Toward a Secular Theory of Religious ExperienceArmin W. Geertz: Conceptions of Religion in the Cognitive Science of ReligionPeter Antes: Phenomenology of Religion RevisitedRussell T. McCutcheon: Fanfare for the Common E.g.Veikko Antonnen: Theories as Borders4. COMPARATIVE RELIGION AND THE UNIVERSITYDonald Wiebe: Claims for a Plurality of Knowledges in the Comparative Study of ReligionsSatoko Fujiwara: Why the Concept of 'World Religion' has Survived in JapanJens-Andre Herbener: Secular and Religious Studies of Religion within Danish UniversitiesGustavo Benavides: O felix culpa! On Teaching Relligion around TheologiansSilas Guerriero: The Science of Religion in Brazil5. COMPARATIVE RELIGION, EDUCATION AND SCHOOLINGMatti Kamppinen: Normative Rationality and the Future Prospects of Religion EducationWanda Alberts: 'RS-based RE'Brian Bocking: Tracing the 'Non-Denominational' Valentine Zuber: Teaching the Secular Moral Code in French State Schools6. RELIGION, SOCIETY, STATE, LAW AND RIGHTSAbrahim H. Khan: Privileging Communication at the Intersect of Religion and Law with reference to Comparative Studies in ReligionMikael Aktor: Whose Rights? Ritual Infant Male Circumcision as a Human Rights IssueMaria del Mar Marcos Sanchez: Current Perspectives on Religious Toleration in the Roman WorldChristoph Bochinger: Pluralism and Plurality in the Study of ReligionsAbdulkader Tayob: Utopia and Heterotopia in Post-Apartheid South African Muslim Discourse7. EMPIRICAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVESEinar Thomassen: What is a God? Some Comparative ReflectionsIngvild S. Gilhus: What Became of Superhuman Beings and Why does the Scientific Study of Religion Still Need Them? Mikael Rothstein: The Alimentary Construction of Social and Supernatural IdentitiesKnut A. Jacobsen: Did Hindu Pilgrimage Develop from the Vedic Tradition?Rosalind Hackett: Sounds Religious Marianna Shakhnovich: Animism and Atomism in Cognitive PerspectiveJan Hjarpe: Beyond Comparative Religion: Theology of Religions and Ethical MysticismGiovanni Casadio: Raffaele Pettazzoni and Karoly Marot, Companions-in-Arms in the Field of the History of Religions8. APPENDIX: TIM JENSEN'S BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

About the Author :
Peter Antes is Professor emeritus of the Study of Religions at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Institut fur Theologie und Religionswissenschaft, Germany. Armin W. Geertz is Professor in the History of Religions at the Department of Culture and Society, Section for the Study of Religion, and Chair of the Religion, Cognition and Culture Research Unit (RCC), Aarhus University, Denmark. Mikael Rothstein is Associate Professor of Comparative Religion, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense and Visiting Professor at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.

Review :
...show[s] how the academic, non-confessional study of religion is fertilized by a profound scholarly diversity, and that this multiplicity of approaches should be seen as a virtue rather than a problem....the breadth of the material in the volume is truly noteworthy. ; Anthropology Review Database, May 8 2016


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  • ISBN-13: 9781781792896
  • Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Equinox Publishing Ltd
  • Sub Title: In Celebration of Tim Jensen's 65th Birthday
  • ISBN-10: 1781792895
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2016
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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