Tracing Common Themes: Comparative Courses in the Study of Religion - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555405649 ISBN 13: 9781555405649

Publisher: Scholars Press, 2000

Synopsis

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Now Available from Duke University Press

This volume focuses theoretically and practically on thematic approaches for teaching comparative courses in religion. It seeks to address the impact that the comparative study of religion has had on the humanities, how it has fared in the various pedagogic shifts discerned in the liberal arts over the last decade, and how the study of religion can serve to globalize humanities education in our increasingly culturally and religiously plural world.

Contributors. Linda Barnes, Karen McCarthy Brown, John B. Carman, Richard M. Carp, John E. Cort, William R. Darrow, Kendall W. Folkert, William A. Graham, Steven P. Hopkins, John Stratton Hawley, Mark Juergensmeyer, Miriam Levering, Robin W. Lovin, Richard R. Niebuhr, Thomas V. Peterson, Frank E. Reynolds, Frederick J. Streng, Michael D. Swartz, Lee H. Yearly, Carol Zaleski

About this title

About the Author

John B. Carman, former director of the Center for the Studyof World Religions at Harvard University, is the ParkmanProfessor of Divinity and professor of comparative religionat Harvard Divinity School. His previous works includeThe Theology of Ramanuja: An Essay in InterreligiousUnderstanding."

Steven P. Hopkins is Associate Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Religion at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Singing the Body of God: The Hymns of Vedantadesika in Their South Indian Tradition

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholars Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555405649
• ISBN 13: 9781555405649
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Carman John B., Hopkins Steven P.