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Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology: Comparison Revisited

Editat de Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Andreas Nehring
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2018
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350058729
ISBN-10: 1350058726
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:NIPPOD
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

International and high-profile contributors and editors from the disciplines of religious studies and theology

Notă biografică

Perry Schmidt-Leukel is Professor of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology at the University of Muenster, Germany. Andreas Nehring is Professor of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology at the University of Erlangen, Germany.

Cuprins

ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAndreas Nehring, Perry Schmidt-LeukelPart 1 Comparison: Contestation and Defence1 Comparative Methodology and the Religious Studies ToolkitPaul Hedges2 Comparison in the Maelstrom of Historicity: A Postcolonial Perspective on Comparative ReligionMichael Bergunder3 Modes of Comparison: Towards Creating a Methodological Framework for Comparative StudiesOliver Freiberger4 Comparison as a Necessary Evil. Examples from Indian and Jewish Worlds Philippe Bornet Part 2 Phenomenology and the Foundations of Comparison5 Camouflage of the Sacred - Can We still Branch Off from Eliade's Comparative Approach?Andreas Nehring6 The Singular and the Shared: Making Amends with Eliade after the Dismissal of the SacredKenneth Rose7 Religious Practice and the Nature of the HumanGavin Flood8 On All-Embracing Mental Structures: Towards a Transcendental Hermeneutics of ReligionFabian VölkerPart 3 Reciprocal Illumination and Comparative Theology9 Comparative Theology and Comparative ReligionKlaus von Stosch10 Reciprocal IlluminationArvind Sharma11 On Creativity, Participation and Normativity. Comparative Theology in Discussion with Arvind Sharma's Reciprocal Illumination.Ulrich Winkler12 Christ as Bodhisattva - A Case of Reciprocal IlluminationPerry Schmidt-LeukelBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

A contemporary and in-depth study of issues in interreligious comparisons and an impetus for new studies of this topic.
[A] coherent and well-constructed work ... Strongly documented and without excessive jargon, these essays provide useful insights into current issues and debates. (Bloomsbury Translation)
Truly refreshing . represents a very important and much needed contribution to methodological questions in the study of religions, and I will be certain to use it in my graduate course on history and method in comparative religion.
To the many critics of religion as a universal phenomenon and of comparative theology as a valid academic project, this collection offers a needed and a multi-faceted response. The contributors make their diverse cases that the complexity and dangers of comparison do not outweigh the possibility, the promise and indeed the urgency of "reciprocal illumination" (Arvind Sharma). This book not only "revisits," it revitalizes comparative studies and the promise of real learning from real differences.
Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology: Comparison Revisited edited by Andreas Nehring, Perry Schmidt-Leukel is an important and timely contribution to renewed discussions of comparative method in religious studies and in theology. Its twelve chapters provide us with thoughtful and probing analyses of comparative method and its role in the study of religions. The essays range across the field, addressing comparison from historical, phenomenological, cognitive, and theological perspectives. Interreligious Comparisons is a signal contribution to the study of religion, and its essays both build on and challenge current methodological orthodoxies. It will be the go-to resource for those seeking a renewed role for comparative method in the study of religion and in comparative theology.