A Magic Still Dwells
Subtitle: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age
Contributors: Kimberley C. Patton (Editor); Benjamin C. Ray (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 11, 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780520221055
Subjects: Comparative Religion; Spirituality; 20th century; Religions; Postmodernism; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Education; Religion / General
First sentence: Whither comparative religion in the postmodern age?
Table of contents: title: Prologue: in comparison a magic dwells / Jonathan Z. Smith; title: pt. 1. Comparative religion: the state of the field.; title: 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.; title: 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.; title: 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