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Religious Studies and Comparative Methodology : The Case for Reciprocal Illumination

By Arvind Sharma

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780791483251, 9780791464557
LCC
BL41 -- .S49 2005eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1764888 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
324\324
Time added
2023-08-13 11:00:16
Religion -- Study and teaching. ; Religions.; REL0

Description

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.

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