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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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  • Contents

  • Reviews

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