Awareness, appropriation, and loathing in histories of comparative religion: review and assessment
A perusal through the latest program of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion reveals that there is a movement afoot. Increasingly, many scholars of religion have turned their attention (either fully or in part) away from the subject matter of the discipline and to its history and f...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Creighton University
2003
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The journal of religion & society
Year: 2003, Volume: 5 |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
B Legge B James B Religion; Study; History B Norman J B Religions; Comparative studies B Chidester B David B John P B 1815-1897 B Burris B Girardot |
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| Summary: | A perusal through the latest program of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion reveals that there is a movement afoot. Increasingly, many scholars of religion have turned their attention (either fully or in part) away from the subject matter of the discipline and to its history and formation.1 Scholars are studying and writing about themselves rather than just religious individuals, institutions, or communities. Three recent works represent well this movement toward self-reflection in the discipline: David Chidester’s Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa (The University Press of Virginia, 1996), John P. Burris’s Exhibiting Religion: Colonialism and Spectacle at International Expositions, 1851-1893 (The University Press of Virginia, 2001), and Norman J. Girardot’s The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage (University of California Press, 2002). |
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| Item Description: | Sammelrezension |
| ISSN: | 1522-5658 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion & society
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10504/64519 |