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Author: William E. Paden (University of Vermont, USA)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Weight: 0.376kg
ISBN: 9781350057890
ISBN 10: 1350057894
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 30 November 2017
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College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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This collection of essays, even if not representing a single, standardized theory of religion, offers a remarkably coherent whole which includes suggestive propositions for moving the comparative study of religion forward and to integrate divergent approaches. * Entangled Religions * A methodological goldmine, New Patterns for Comparative Religion offers a new paradigm for the comparative study of religions in which `the enterprise of comparison...is perhaps our greatest claim to originality as an independent academic discipline' (139). This thought-provoking work is recommended for university and community college libraries with substantial holdings in the study of religion. Graduate students and professors of religion will find this title of interest as well. * Reading Religion * The essays selected for this volume invite the readers to join a series of engaging conversations with key theoretical questions in the study of religion\s. These forays into various theoretical environments avoid hegemonic discourse, opening up interrelated perspectives on important aspects of the eco-sphere of religion. -- Michael Stausberg, Professor of Religion, University of Bergen, Norway This remarkable set of essays recounts Paden's efforts to renew the comparative study of religion by placing his earlier emphasis on world making on an evolutionary footing. In focusing on behavior as a bridge between disciplines and recasting worlds as environmental niches, he points the way to a more robust comparativism. * Ann Taves, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA *
This collection of essays, even if not representing a single, standardized theory of religion, offers a remarkably coherent whole which includes suggestive propositions for moving the comparative study of religion forward and to integrate divergent approaches. * Entangled Religions * A methodological goldmine, New Patterns for Comparative Religion offers a new paradigm for the comparative study of religions in which ‘the enterprise of comparison…is perhaps our greatest claim to originality as an independent academic discipline’ (139). This thought-provoking work is recommended for university and community college libraries with substantial holdings in the study of religion. Graduate students and professors of religion will find this title of interest as well. * Reading Religion * Paden provides a valuable and nondogmatic glimpse into the current state of the scholarly domain of comparative religion and succeeds in addressing some of the field’s important hermeneutical tensions while offering inventive heuristic tools in an erudite and laudable manner. * International Journal for the Study of New Religions * The essays selected for this volume invite the readers to join a series of engaging conversations with key theoretical questions in the study of religion\s. These forays into various theoretical environments avoid hegemonic discourse, opening up interrelated perspectives on important aspects of the eco-sphere of religion. -- Michael Stausberg, Professor of Religion, University of Bergen, Norway This remarkable set of essays recounts Paden’s efforts to renew the comparative study of religion by placing his earlier emphasis on world making on an evolutionary footing. In focusing on behavior as a bridge between disciplines and recasting “worlds” as environmental “niches,” he points the way to a more robust comparativism. * Ann Taves, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA *
Author Information
William E. Paden is Professor Emeritus of Religion at the University of Vermont, USA. He was Religion Department Chair for 22 years, and is author of Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion (1988, 1994) and Interpreting the Sacred: Ways of Viewing Religion (1992, 2003).
