Authors: John B. Carman (Editor), Steven P. Hopkins
ISBN-13: 9781555405649, ISBN-10: 1555405649
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: January 1991
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Originally published by Scholars Press 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
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Acknowledgments | ||
I | Thematic Comparison in Teaching the History of Religion | 1 |
II | A Thematic Course in the Study of Religion | 19 |
III | A Mega-Theme for an Introductory Course in Religious Studies | 37 |
IV | Pilgrimage as a Thematic Introduction to the Comparative Study of Religion | 51 |
V | Pilgrimage Out West | 65 |
VI | 'Healing' as a Theme in Teaching the Study of Religion in a Liberal Arts Setting | 81 |
VII | The Strange in the Midst of the Familiar: A Thematic Seminar on Sacrifice | 101 |
VIII | The Symbol of Destruction and the Destruction of Symbol: Sacrifice as a Thematic Course Focus | 113 |
IX | Mysticism: A Popular and Problematic Course | 127 |
X | Spiritual Practices in Historical Perspective | 139 |
XI | Understanding the Self: East and West--An Interdisciplinary Study of a Theme | 155 |
XII | Bourgeois Relativism and the Comparative Study of the Self | 165 |
XIII | Scriptures and Classics | 179 |
XIV | Words, Truth, and Power | 199 |
XV | Religion and Gender: A Comparative Approach | 219 |
XVI | Women in African-American Religions: The Caribbean and South America | 235 |
XVII | Teaching Comparative Religious Ethics | 249 |
XVIII | Comparative Ethics | 263 |
XIX | Creativity and Art: Artists, Shamans, and Cosmology | 273 |
XX | Better Questions: Introduction to the History of Religion and Art | 287 |
XXI | Concluding Reflections: The Fulcrum of Comparison | 301 |