Religious Studies And Comparative Methodology: The Case For Reciprocal Illumination - Rilegato

Sharma, Arvind

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ISBN 10: 0791464555 ISBN 13: 9780791464557

Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 2005

Riassunto

Comparison is at the heart of religious studies as a discipline and foundational to the field's methodology. In this book, Arvind Sharma introduces the term "reciprocal illumination" to describe the mutual enlightenment that can occur when a comparison is made between one tradition and another, one method and another, or between a tradition and a method. Developing the concept of reciprocal illumination through historical, phenomenological, and psychological methods, Sharma demonstrates how to use comparison, while avoiding the pitfall of treating it as merely raw material for higher order generalizations.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Sleep as a State of Consciousness in Advaita Vedanta and Methodology in Religious Studies: The Interface with Women's Studies, also published by SUNY Press.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: State Univ of New York Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0791464555
• ISBN 13: 9780791464557
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 314
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile