A magic still dwells : comparative religion in the postmodern age /
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
[2000]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: in comparison a magic dwells / Jonathan Z. Smith
- pt. 1. Comparative religion: the state of the field. The scholar as mythographer: comparative Indo-European myth and postmodern concerns / David Gordon White ; Contested identities: the study of Buddhism in the postmodern world / Malcolm David Eckel ; Post-modern and -colonial -structural comparisons / Wendy Doniger
- pt. 2. Case studies: critical issues in the history of religions. What's beyond the post? comparative analysis as critical method / Barbara A. Holdrege ; The contextual illusion: comparative mysticism and postmodernism / Jonathan R. Herman ; Discourse about difference: understanding African ritual language / Benjamin Caleb Ray ; American religion is naturally comparative / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan ; Dialogue and method: reconstructing the study of religion / Diana L. Eck
- pt. 3. A revised comparison: new justifications for comparative study. Juggling torches: why we still need comparative religion / Kimberley C. Patton ; Methodology, comparisons, and truth / Huston Smith ; Elements of a new comparativism / William E. Paden ; The magic in miniature: etymological links in comparative religions / Laurie L. Patton ; The net of Indra: comparison and the contribution of perception / Lawrence E. Sullivan ; Epilogue: the "end" of comparison: redescription and rectification / Jonathan Z. Smith.