Wu shu de zong ying
Subtitle: hou xian dai shi qi de bi jiao zong jiao yan jiu
By: Jinbaili Padun (Kimberley C.Patton), Benjieming Leiyi (Benjamin C.Ray) zhu bian
Edition: Di 1 ban
Series: Kua wen hua si xiang zhe wen ku; Kua wen hua si xiang zhe wen ku
Publisher: Zhongguo ren min da xue chu ban she
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Beijing
Language: chi
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9787300066035
Subjects: Religions; Postmodernism
Other titles: Hou xian dai shi qi de bi jiao zong jiao yan jiu
Work titles: Magic still dwells. Chinese
Description: 本论文集是我们了解近二三十年来美国宗教学研究成果的一个重要窗口。
Notes: Translation of: A magic still dwells : comparative religion in the postmodern age; Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2000..

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: English contents: Prologue: in comparison a magic dwells / Jonathan Z. Smith; title: pt. 1. Comparative religion: the state of the field. The scholar as mythographer: comparative Indo-European myth and postmodern concerns / David Gordon White ; Contested identities: the study of Buddhism in the postmodern world / Malcolm David Eckel ; Post-modern and -colonial -structural comparisons / Wendy Doniger; title: pt. 2. Case studies: critical issues in the history of religions. What's beyond the post? comparative analysis as critical method / Barbara A. Holdrege ; The contextual illusion: comparative mysticism and postmodernism / Jonathan R. Herman ; Discourse about difference: understanding African ritual language / Benjamin Caleb Ray ; American religion is naturally comparative / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan ; Dialogue and method: reconstructing the study of religion / Diana L. Eck; title: pt. 3. A revised comparison: new justifications for comparative study. Juggling torches: why we still need comparative religion / Kimberley C. Patton ; Methodology, comparisons, and truth / Huston Smith ; Elements of a new comparativism / William E. Paden ; The magic in miniature: etymological links in comparative religions / Laurie L. Patton ; The net of Indra: comparison and the contribution of perception / Lawrence E. Sullivan ; Epilogue: the "end" of comparison: redescription and rectification / Jonathan Z. Smith.