It was Max Müller who coined the famous motto of the comparative study of religion "He who knows one, knows none." Since its first beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century, the history of religions has always somehow invoked comparative insights as its very raison d'être. The nature of these insights has been under constant debate and at times, scepticism and devastating critique of the more pretentious comparative projects made regionally specialized studies seem the only legitimate enterprise within the discipline.
The fact remains, however, that the major general issues addressed by historians of religions are rooted in considerations of a comparative nature.
The dossier of papers from an international conference held at the University of Copenhagen discusses tradition as well as new approaches to the fundamental issues of the aim, scope and validity of comparative studies in history of religions. No longer bound to monolithic visions of history and human nature, these papers critically explore the limits and the roles of comparison in the study of religion.
Contributions by Lourens van den Bosch, Bruce Lincoln, Britt-Mari Näsström, Tord Olsson, William Paden, Jens Peter Schjødt, Allan Williams and the editors.
Indhold
Introduction
Lourens P. van den Bosch: Friedrich Max Müller. His Contribution to the Science of Religion
Bruce Lincoln: The History of Religions and the History of Authority
Britt-Mari Näsström: Freyja: The Trivalent Goddess
Tord Olsson: Verbal Presentation of Religious Beliefs. A Dilemma in the Phenomenology of Religions
William E. Paden: Reconceiving the Category of the Sacred
Erik Reenberg Sand: Comparative Religion. Between Phenomenologyand Typology of Religions
Jens Peter Schjødt: Typological and Genetic Comparisons: Implications and Perspectives
Jørgen Podemann Sørensen: Levels of Comparison. A Critical Approach to Thematization in Comparative Religion
Alan V. Williams: Speaking of Purity. When the Zoroastrian High Priest first met the Hindu Rajah
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Rethinking Religion 1989, ISBN 978-87-7289-079-1, hft
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