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Comparing Religions
Erin Prophet, Ata Anzali, Andrea R. Jain, et al.
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Religion/Theologie
Beschreibung
Comparing Religions is a next-generation textbook which expertly guides, inspires, and challenges those who wish to think seriously about religious pluralism in the modern world. * A unique book teaching the art and practice of comparing religions * Draws on a wide range of religious traditions to demonstrate the complexity and power of comparative practices * Provides both a history and understanding of comparative practice and a series of thematic chapters showing how responsible practice is done * A three part structure provides readers with a map and effective process through which to grasp this challenging but fascinating approach * The author is a leading academic, writer, and exponent of comparative practice * Contains numerous learning features, including chapter outlines, summaries, toolkits, discussion questions, a glossary, and many images * Supported by a companion website (available on publication) at www.wiley.com/go/kripal, which includes information on individual religious traditions, links of other sites, an interview with the author, learning features, and much more
Rezensionen
"This volume is highly recommended for undergraduates, and even graduate students and general readers."
"This book offers the most original and provocative recasting of the comparative study of religion in decades, and it's aimed just where we need this rethinking the most: the classroom. Other textbooks tend to work with a checklist of subjects as they summon the major religions serially to the stage. Kripal starts instead with the mystery of the comparative act itself, allowing that to determine what he brings forward for our attention. So it's charisma, sex, the paranormal, and 'soul practices' more than it's Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam. Kripal recognizes the comparativist in each of us and urges us to take it seriously. The result is deep and wide, and excitingly open-minded."
John Stratton Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University
"Armed with an extensive array of case studies and a richly diverse portfolio of illustrations, Kripal not only provides a lucid survey of the 'facts' of the world's religions, but inspires us to embrace the fundamentally transcendent nature of the religious experience in all of its manifestations, both ordinary and uncanny, and to confront the inherent challenges of studying religion in a responsibly comparative manner. Comparing Religions is a masterly example of how a book intended for the classroom can be an invigorating stimulus toward new ways of thinking about a phenomenon that pervades every aspect of our world."
Sarah Iles Johnston, The Ohio State University
"Kripal is at his very best in this exceptional introduction to the study of religion. After a self-reflexive journey through the religious realms of myth, ritual, nature, science, sex, charisma, soul, salvation, and the imagination and its paranormal powers, we are guided to put it all back together with an eye to religious tolerance, freedom, and pluralism. This book is the red pill. Ingest it and you will be enlightened."
April D. DeConick, Rice University
"Comparing Religions is a lucid, entertaining, and even fun introduction to the comparative study of religion. It will be effective with its target audience, young people and the undergraduate classroom, because, while they must wrestle with the way scholars deconstruct and reduce to social or evolutionary functions such phenomena, Kripal never loses sight of the experiences and meanings of those transformed by, engaged in, and mobilized through it. There is no better single volume to entice students into the fraught and fascinating study of religion."
Bron Taylor, author of Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future and editor of The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
"Jeffrey Kripal provides a thoughtful and compelling discussion of key themes, ideas, and challenges that ground the study of religion across traditions and geographies. It is a layered and textured treatment that will capture the imagination and engage students from start to finish. This important and timely text is not to be missed."
Anthony B. Pinn, author of Introducing African American Religion
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Comparative & World Religions, Religionswissenschaft, Religion & Theology, Religious Studies, Religion & Culture, Religion u. Kultur, Religion u. Theologie, Religion, Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft