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Author : Ellen Bradshaw Aitken,Arvind Sharma
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438464701
Author : Ellen Bradshaw Aitken (1961–2014),Arvind Sharma
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438464695
First work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and his influence on the development of religious studies and Islamic studies in the twentieth century. This is the first work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916–2000), whose intellectual and institutional contributions helped shape the field of religious studies in the latter half of the twentieth century. As a young scholar, Smith taught Indian and Islamic history in Lahore for several years and witnessed the partition of India. Upon his return to North America, he obtained his PhD at Princeton University before embarking upon a long and distinguished career. He founded the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University and served as director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. Smith emphasized the place of the scholarly study of Islam in the Western academy long before Islam occupied its current position at the center of global politics, challenged the notion of monolithic world religions, and argued for the importance of dialogical processes and a personalist approach to the study of religion. Contributors to this volume, many of whom were Smith’s students, provide a wide-ranging exploration of his influence and legacy
Author : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451420145
Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He shows the inadequacy of "religion" to capture the living, endlessly variable ways and traditions in which religious faith presents itself in the world.
Author : Vaia Touna,Richard Newton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350251670
This book introduces students to the so-called classics of the field from the 19th and 20th centuries, whilst challenging readers to apply a critical lens. Instead of representing scholars and their works as virtually timeless, each contributor provides sufficient background on the classic work in question so that readers not only understand its novelty and place in its own time, but are able to arrive at a critical understanding of whether its approach to studying religion continues to be useful to them today. Scholars discussed include Muller, Durkheim, Freud and Eliade. Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists therefore offers a novel way into writing both a history and ethnography of the discipline, helping readers to see how it has changed and inviting them to consider what-if anything-endures and thereby unites these diverse authors into a common field.
Author : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791433943
A distinguished historian of religion explores the contemporary culture of the Western world.
Author : Bradley L. Herling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472506030
How should we understand and interpret the strange but familiar thing that we call “religion”? What are the foundations of a methodical approach to this subject, and what theoretical tools are available to students who are new to this area of inquiry? A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion provides an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to theories and basic methodology in the field. Now in its second edition and updated throughout, this concise but comprehensive book includes:- - A case for the urgency and relevance of studying religion today - Discussion of the role and perspective of the student of religion - Description of the nature of theory and its function - An accessible survey of classic theorists in the modern study of religion - Feature boxes highlighting essential quotations and guiding principles for application of theories An expanded consideration of contemporary issues in the field, including gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, globalization, violence, science, and new media. - Recommended further reading A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion offers a thorough but concise body of material suitable for introductory courses on the study of religion, or to provide theoretical context for survey courses. Study questions and worksheets can be found on the book's webpage.
Author : Huston Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520952355
For more than sixty years, Huston Smith has not only written and taught about the world’s religions, he has lived them. This Reader presents a rich selection of Smith’s writings, covering six decades of inquiry and exploration, and ranging from scholarship to memoir. Over his long academic career, Smith’s tireless enthusiasm for religious ideas has offered readers both in and outside the academy a fresh understanding of what religion is and what makes it meaningful. The Huston Smith Reader offers a comprehensive guide to understanding religion and spirituality as well as a memorable record of Huston Smith’s lifelong endeavor to enrich the inner lives of his fellow humans.
Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791483251
Comparison is at the heart of religious studies as a discipline and foundational to the field's methodology. In this book, Arvind Sharma introduces the term "reciprocal illumination" to describe the mutual enlightenment that can occur when a comparison is made between one tradition and another, one method and another, or between a tradition and a method. Developing the concept of reciprocal illumination through historical, phenomenological, and psychological methods, Sharma demonstrates how to use comparison, while avoiding the pitfall of treating it as merely raw material for higher order generalizations.
Author : Jerry L. Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429671548
Thinking about ultimate reality is becoming increasingly transreligious. This transreligious turn follows inevitably from the discovery of divine truths in multiple traditions. Global communications bring the full range of religious ideas and practices to anyone with access to the internet. Moreover, the growth of the nones and those who describe themselves as spiritual but not religious creates a pressing need for theological thinking not bound by prescribed doctrines and fixed rituals. This book responds to this vital need. The chapters in this volume each examine the claim that if the aim of theology is to know and articulate all we can about the divine reality, and if revelations, enlightenments, and insights into that reality are not limited to a single tradition, then what is called for is a theology without confessional restrictions. In other words, a Theology Without Walls. To ground the project in examples, the volume provides emerging models of transreligious inquiry. It also includes sympathetic critics who raise valid concerns that such a theology must face. This is a book that will be of urgent interest to theologians, religious studies scholars, and philosophers of religion. It will be especially suitable for those interested in comparative theology, inter-religious and interfaith understanding, new trends in constructive theology, normative religious studies, and global philosophy of religion.
Author : Brian Arthur Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538127872
This essential comparative religious studies resource presents primary scriptures of seven world religions and reveals their shared heritage in Zoroastrian tradition. Completing the authoritative trilogy alongside Three Testaments: Torah Gospel and Quran and Four Testaments: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita, Seven Testamentsof World Religion lays the groundwork for all studies of religious history. Special Features Concise descriptions of each testament Maps, timelines, and study guide questions Appendices connecting historical events across testaments
Author : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Islam
ISBN : OCLC:1393047743
Author : Charles Fletcher
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1848855095
Christian-Muslim dialogue grows increasingly important, but little is known about individual Muslim dialogical thinkers. Born in Palestine in 1921, Ismail al-Faruqi was a leading figure in the development of conversation and debate across faiths in North America in the second half of the twentieth century, and was actively engaged in inter-faith study and dialogue. Al-Faruqi founded the Islamic Studies programme at Temple University, Pennsylvania where several distinguished Muslim intellectuals have taught, such as Seyyid Hossein Nasr, Mahmoud Ayoub and Hasan Hanafi. Along with Kenneth Cragg and Wilfred Cantwell Smith, al-Faruqi was an active participant in Muslim-Christian dialogues in the 1970s and the 1980s. Charles Fletcher here presents the first study dedicated to Ismail al-Faruqi's theory and practice of interfaith dialogue. Analysing al-Faruqi's sometimes provocative ideas on the comparative study of religion, dialogue and practical engagement, the author provides an illuminating study of the life and thought of this important scholar. Tracing the development of al-Faruqi's ideas and practice of inter-faith dialogue, Fletcher shows how Muslim intellectuals engaged in such attempts viewed their role as representatives of the worldwide Muslim community. With perceptive insights into the history of contemporary Muslim-Christian dialogue, this book will be invaluable for all those interested in inter-faith relations, comparative religious studies, North American Muslims and Islamic studies.
Author : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Publisher : Hesperides Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781406736342
Originally published in 1913. Author: Henri Lichtenberger Language: English Keywords: History Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Keywords: English Keywords 1900s Language English Artwork
Author : W. Smith
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0333522729
The man or woman of faith living in today's pluralist world must have a theology that will do justice to his or her own faith, and also to the neighbours' - and to the differences between them. Similarly, humanists must have a theory that does justice to their own vision and also to the fact that for most of their fellows on earth the proper way of being human has been one or another of various `religious' ways. Any interpretation of human history, both past and present, must take into serious account the self-consciousness of each major part, as well as the diversity and the dynamic of the whole. This exciting book, first published in 1981 and now also available in paperback, is perhaps our world's first serious endeavour towards a theology in global perspective. Here is a wrestling with the demands of an authentic theology of the comparative history of religion.
Author : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Publisher : Oxford : Oneworld Publications
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015055455581
A new anthology of key writings by one of the most celebrated scholars of comparative religion, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, which makes all his key ideas available at a glance, and features a commentary, cross-referencing, and thematic organization.
