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Comparative Religion

"He who knows one, knows none." Friedrich Max Müller's phrase, lifted from Goethe and applied to religions, became the founding aphorism of comparative...

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"He who knows one, knows none." Friedrich Max Müller's phrase, lifted from Goethe and applied to religions, became the founding aphorism of comparative religion in the 1870s. To understand any single tradition you have to compare it with others, because what looks like the essence of your own from inside is just one variant from outside. Key sections include: Comparative Religion.; Opening The science of religion.; Chapter I What religion is.; Chapter II Friedrich Max Müller.; Chapter III The anthropological line.; Chapter IV Rudolf Otto and the holy.; Chapter V Mircea Eliade.; Chapter VI Ninian Smart's seven dimensions.; Chapter VII Phenomenology of religion.; Chapter VIII William James and religious experience..

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  1. 01Comparative Religion.
  2. 02Opening The science of religion.
  3. 03Chapter I What religion is.
  4. 04Chapter II Friedrich Max Müller.
  5. 05Chapter III The anthropological line.
  6. 06Chapter IV Rudolf Otto and the holy.
  7. 07Chapter V Mircea Eliade.
  8. 08Chapter VI Ninian Smart's seven dimensions.
  9. 09Chapter VII Phenomenology of religion.
  10. 10Chapter VIII William James and religious experience.
  11. 11Chapter IX Max Weber and religious sociology.
  12. 12Chapter X The "world religions" framework.
  13. 13Chapter XI Tomoko Masuzawa's critique.
  14. 14Chapter XII Jonathan Z. Smith.
  15. 15Chapter XIII Talal Asad and the genealogy of "religion."
  16. 16Chapter XIV Clifford Geertz and thick description.
  17. 17Chapter XV The cognitive turn.
  18. 18Chapter XVI Wach, Bellah, and types of religious community.
  19. 19Chapter XVII The contemporary methods.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII The insider/outsider problem.
  21. 21Chapter XIX Theologies of religious pluralism.
  22. 22Chapter XX New religious movements.
  23. 23Chapter XXI Lived religion.
  24. 24Chapter XXII Secularisation and its critics.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII The teaching tradition.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV Religion and violence.
  27. 27Chapter XXV Watch & read.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI The shelf.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII Why it still matters.
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII The next decade.
  31. 31The end of the deck.
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