The Human Condition (The Comparative Religious Ideas Project): A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project (SUNY series, The Comparative Religious Ideas Project) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791447804 ISBN 13: 9780791447802

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2000

Synopsis

Explores the human condition in a range of world religions and discusses the issue and philosophical implications of comparison itself. This multi-authored collaborative work on the idea of the human condition as a comparative category cuts across major religious traditions and cultures. Extensive essays by distinguished specialists examine Chinese religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Together the essays provide a multi-cultural approach to the human condition, discussing both broad sensibilities of religious traditions as well as specific texts. In addition the volume contains an introduction to a sophisticated theory of comparison for religious ideas, including explicit comparisons based on the specialized essays.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Cummings Neville is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University, and Dean of the School of Theology. He has written many books, including most recently, Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology; Normative Cultures; The Truth of Broken Symbols; and Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World, all published by SUNY Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0791447804
• ISBN 13: 9780791447802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Neville Robert Cummings