Magic Still Dwells - Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age

"The need for a fresh look at the area of comparative religions should be apparent to anyone with any connection to the field. In the time that post-modernism has become the fin de siecle intellectual establishment, challenge to its orthodoxy has become unthinkable. However it is now obvious that a radical change of intellectual style is much overdue. . . . we must critique post-modernism from within the mind set of the period. This book does just that, filling a yawning gap in the literature of the field." —Ralph Slotten, Professor Emeritus of the History of Religions, Dickinson College

List of contents

CONTRIBUTORS:
Wendy Doniger, Diana Eck, Malcolm David Eckel, Jonathan R. Herman, Barbara A. Holdrege, William E. Paden, Laurie L. Patton, Kimberley C. Patton, Benjamin C. Ray, Huston Smith, Jonathan Z. Smith, Lawrence E. Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, David Gordon White

About the author

Kimberley C. Patton is Assistant Professor in the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of When the High Gods Pour Out Wine: Ritual, Paradox, and Divine Reflexivity (forthcoming in 2000). Benjamin C. Ray is Daniels Family NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Myth, Ritual, and Kingship in Buganda (1991).

Summary

In this assessment of the field of compartive religion, this text surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavour and those who affirm it. It brings together leading historians of religion from a range of backgrounds and vantage points.

Product details

• Authors: Kimberley C. Patton, Kimberley C. Ray Patton
• Assisted by: Patton (Editor), Kimberley C. Patton (Editor), Patton Kimberley C. (Editor), Benjamin C. Ray (Editor), Ray Benjamin C. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2000
• EAN: 9780520221055
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22105-5
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Spirituality, 20th Century, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience