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    <subTitle>possibilities and perils?</subTitle>
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    <dateIssued>2006</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>Comparison as a theoretical exercise / Anthony J. Blasi -- Questions of judgment in comparative religious studies / George Weckman -- The role of the authoritative in the comparative process / David Cave -- The mothering principle in the comparison of religions / Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos -- Theaters of worldmaking behaviors : panhuman contexts for comparative religion / William E. Paden -- Comparing religious ideas : there's method in the mob's madness / Wesley J. Wildman -- Comparative religion for undergraduates : what next? / John Stratton Hawley -- Socrates and Jesus : comparing founder-figures in the classroom / James Constantine Hanges -- Christianity's emergence from Judaism : the plus and minus of Joseph Klausner's comparative analysis / Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos -- Interpreting glossolalia and the comparison of comparisons / James Constantine Hanges -- Towards a post-colonial comparative religion? : comparing Hinduism and Islam as Orientalist constructions / Arvind Sharma -- Circling the wagons : the problem with the insider/outsider in the comparative study of religions / Russell T. McCutcheon -- The postmodernist challenge to the comparative method / Robert A. Segal -- The only kind of comparison worth doing : history, epistemology, and the "strong program" of comparative study / Ivan Strenski.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Thomas Athanasius Idinopulos, Brian C. Wilson, and James Constantine Hanges.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-311) and indexes.</note>
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    <topic>Religion</topic>
    <topic>Methodology</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Religions</topic>
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