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A magic still dwells: comparative religion in the postmodern age
Kimberley C. Patton and Benjamin C. Ray
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page vii)
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A Note to the Reader (page ix)
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Introduction (Kimberley C. Patton and Benjamin C. Ray, page 1)
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Prologue: In Comparison a Magic Dwells (Jonathan Z. Smith, page 23)
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Part One. Comparative Religion: The State of the Field
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The Scholar as Mythographer: Comparative Indo-European Myth and Postmodern Concerns (David Gordon White, page 47)
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Contested Identities: The Study of Buddhism in the Postmodern World (Malcolm David Eckel, page 55)
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Post-modern and -colonial -structural Comparisons (Wendy Doniger, page 63)
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Part Two. Case Studies: Critical Issues in the History of Religions
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What's Beyond the Post? Comparative Analysis as Critical Method (Barbara A. Holdrege, page 77)
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The Contextual Illusion: Comparative Mysticism and Postmodernism (Jonathan R. Herman, page 92)
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Discourse about Difference: Understanding African Ritual Language (Benjamin Caleb Ray, page 101)
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American Religion Is Naturally Comparative (Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, page 117)
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Dialogue and Method: Reconstructing the Study of Religion (Diana L. Eck, page 131)
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Part Three. A Revised Comparison: New Justifications for Comparative Study
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Juggling Torches: Why We Still Need Comparative Religion (Kimberley C. Patton, page 153)
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Methodology, Comparisons, and Truth (Huston Smith, page 172)
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Elements of a New Comparativism (William E. Paden, page 182)
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The Magic in Miniature: Etymological Links in Comparative Religions (Laurie L. Patton, page 193)
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The Net of Indra: Comparison and the Contribution of Perception (Lawrence E. Sullivan, page 206)
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Epilogue: The "End" of Comparison: Redescription and Rectification (Jonathan Z. Smith, page 237)
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Contributors (page 243)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JR | 82.1 (Jan. 2002): 160-161 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1205928 |
Citable Link
Published: c2000
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520221055 (paper)
- 9780520219717 (hardcover)
- 9780520923867 (ebook)