Regimes of comparatism : frameworks of comparison in history, religion and anthropology /

Historically, all societies have used comparison to analyze cultural difference through the interaction of religion, power, and translation. When comparison is a self-reflective practice, it can be seen as a form of comparatism. Many scholars are concerned in one way or another with the practice and...

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Main Author: Gagne, Renaud.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston, MA : Brill, 2018.

Series: Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 24.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390898.

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Call Number: BL80.3

Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Regimes of Comparatism /
  • Renaud Gagné
  • Comparisons Compared: A Study in the Early Modern Roots of Cultural History /
  • Anthony Grafton
  • What Was the Comparative History of Religions in 17th-Century Europe (and Beyond)? Pagan Monotheism/Pagan Animism, from T'ien to Tylor /
  • Dmitri Levitin
  • Comparing Cultures in the Early Modern World: Hierarchies, Genealogies and the Idea of European Modernity /
  • Joan-Pau Rubiés
  • Comparison and Christianity: Sacrifice in the Age of the Encyclopedia /
  • Jonathan Sheehan
  • The Isis of Turin Affair /
  • Renaud Gagné
  • What Has Alexandria to Do with Jerusalem?: Writing the History of the Jews in the 19th Century /
  • Simon Goldhill
  • Akbar's Dream: The Mughal Emperor in Nineteenth-Century Literature /
  • Phiroze Vasunia
  • History of Religions: The Comparative Moment /
  • Guy G. Stroumsa
  • Going Full Frontal: Two Modalities of Comparison in Social Anthropology /
  • Matei Candea
  • Placing Self Amid Others: A Mongolian Technique of Comparison /
  • Caroline Humphrey
  • Anthropological Comparatisms: Generalisation, Symmetrisation, Bifurcation /
  • Philippe Descola
  • Friendship and Kinship: Comparatism and Its Theoretical Possibilities in Anthropology /
  • Marilyn Strathern
  • The Fortunes of Comparatism: History, Anthropology, Philosophy /
  • Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd.