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March 29, 2017
Tracing Common Themes: Comparative Courses in the Study of Religion
- Author
- Carman, John B. and Steven P. Hopkings, eds.
- Publisher
- Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA
- ISBN
- 1555405649
- Table of Contents
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Contributors
Acknowledgments
ch. 1 Thematic Comparison in Teaching the History of Religion (John B. Carman, and Steven P. Hopkins)
ch. 2 A Thematic Course in the Study of Religion (Kendall W. Folkert, Edited by John E. Cort)
ch. 3 A Mega-Theme for an Introductory Course in Religious Studies (Frederick J. Streng)
ch. 4 Pilgrimage as a Thematic Introduction to the Comparative Study of Religion (Richard R. Niebuhr)
ch. 5 Pilgrimage Out West (John Stratton Hawley)
ch. 6 'Healing' as a Theme in Teaching the Study of Religion in a Liberal Arts Setting (Linda Barnes)
ch. 7 The Strange in the Midst of the Familiar: A Thematic Seminar on Sacrifice (Michael D. Swartz)
ch. 8 The Symbol of Destruction and the Destruction of Symbol: Sacrifice as a Thematic Course Focus (William R. Darrow)
ch. 9 Mysticism: A Popular and Problematic Course (Frederick J. Streng)
ch. 10 Spiritual Practices in Historical Perspective (Carol Zaleski)
ch. 11 Understanding the Self: East and West--An Interdisciplinary Study of a Theme (Fredrick J. Streng)
ch. 12 Bourgeois Relativism and the Comparative Study of the Self (Lee H. Yearley)
ch. 13 Scriptures and Classics (William A. Graham)
ch. 14 Words, Truth, and Power (Miriam Levering)
ch. 15 Religion and Gender: A Comparative Approach (Miriam Levering)
ch. 16 Women in African-American Religions: The Caribbean and South America (Karen McCarthy Brown)
ch. 17 Teaching Comparative Religious Ethics (Brown W. Lovin, and Frank E. Reynolds)
ch. 18 Comparative Ethics (Mark Juergensmeyer)
ch. 19 Creativity and Art: Artists, Shamans, and Cosmology (Thomas V. Peterson)
ch. 20 Better Questions: Introduction to the History of Religion and Art (Richard M. Carp)
ch. 21 Concluding Reflections: The Fulcrum of Comparison (John B. Carman, and Steven P. Hopkins)
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. (From the Publisher)