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Offers new ways of comparing features of the world's religions.

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Author:   Shubha Pathak
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781438445380

ISBN 10:   1438445385
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   02 January 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Foreword by Wendy Doniger Introduction by Shubha Pathak Part I. Figuring Religious Ideas 1. Marking Religion's Boundaries: Constitutive Terms, Orienting Tropes, and Exegetical Fussiness Thomas A. Tweed 2. ""Epic"" as an Amnesiac Metaphor: Finding the Word to Compare Ancient Greek and Sanskrit Poems Shubha Pathak 3. Conceptions of the Self in the Zhuangzi: Conceptual Metaphor Analysis and Comparative Thought Edward Slingerland 4. Theorizing Embodiment: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the Comparative Study of Religion James Egge Part II. Figuring Religious Images 5. Bathed in Milk: Metaphors of Suckling and Spiritual Transmission in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah Ellen Haskell 6. Metaphors and Images of Dress and Nakedness: Wrappings of Embodied Identity Terhi Utriainen Part III. Figuring Religious Activities 7. Poetry, Ritual, and Associational Thought in Early India and Elsewhere Laurie L. Patton 8. Spatial Metaphors and Women's Religious Activities in Ancient Greece and China Yiqun Zhou 9. In Search of Equivalence: Conceiving Muslim-Hindu Encounter through Translation Theory Tony K. Stewart Afterword by Glen Alexander Hayes Contributors Index

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Shubha Pathak is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at American University.

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