A Comparative-Informational Approach to the Study of Religion: The Chinese and Jewish Cases

This article offers a "comparative-informational" approach to the study of religion. It demonstrates how historical transformations in religious traditions are frequently intertwined with shifts towards new strategies of managing information, or "informational orders." The articl...

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Subtitles:DISCUSSING THE DISCIPLINE
Main Author: Lior, Yair (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2020]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 88, Issue: 1, Pages: 92-141
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Neo-Confucianism / Buddhism / Cabala / Greece (Antiquity) / Philosophy / Comparative religion
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
BH Judaism
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
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