Religious Studies and Comparative Methodology

The Case for Reciprocal Illumination

AvArvind Sharma

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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A contribution to the methodology of religious studies, this work discusses using comparison to provide mutual illumination among religious traditions while avoiding the problem of assimilating one tradition to another.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-06-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:445 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:324
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791464564

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Part I 1. Does One Religious Tradition Help Us Understand Another? A Wide Lens Approach 2. Does One Religious Tradition Help Us Understand Another? A Zoom Lens Approach 3. Reciprocal Illumination as a Formal Concept 4. Reciprocal Illumination in Relation to the Lived Experience of Other Religions 5. Reciprocal Illumination and Comparative Religion 6. Reciprocal Illumination in Relation to the Views of W. C. Smith and Mircea Eliade 7. Reciprocal Illumination and the Historical Method 8. Reciprocal Illumination and the Phenomenological Method 9. Parallelisms between Hinduism and Christianity as Further Examples of Reciprocal Illumination Part II 10. Reciprocal Illumination within a Tradition 11. Reciprocal Illumination between Traditions 12. Reciprocal Illumination among Traditions 13. Reciprocal Illumination among Types of Traditions 14. Reciprocal Illumination between Religion and the Secular Tradition Part III 15. Reciprocal Illumination within a Method 16. The History of Religions: Buddhism and Judaism 17. The Phenomenology of Religion and Buddhism 18. The Psychology of Religion and Buddhism 19. The Psychology of Religion and Hinduism 20. The Sociology of Religion and Hinduism 21. Reciprocal Illumination and the Dialogue of World Religions Conclusion NotesAuthor IndexSubject Index