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First work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and his influence on the development of religious studies and Islamic studies in the twentieth century.

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Author:   Ellen Bradshaw Aitken ,  Arvind Sharma
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:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438464695

ISBN 10:   143846469
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   01 April 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Arvind Sharma Introduction Diana L. Eck Religious Studies-The Academic and Moral Challenge: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith John B. Carman Wilfred Cantwell Smith: Academic Architect Purushottama Bilimoria The Meaningful ""End"" of God, Faith, and Scripture Thomas B. Coburn Anticipating the Emergence of ""Contemplative Studies"": Reflections on the Work of Wilfred Cantwell Smith Harvey Cox Faith and Belief Revisited William A. Graham Wilfred Cantwell Smith and ""Orientalism"" John Stratton Hawley Enabling Antinomies: Tensions and Tensile Strength in Wilfred Cantwell Smith Jonathan R. Herman Who Cares If the Qur'an Is the Word of God? W. C. Smith's Charge to the Aspiring Public Intellectual Amir Hussain Towards a Hermeneutic of Humanity: Wilfred Cantwell Smith and the Study of Muslims Sheila McDonough Wilfred Cantwell Smith in Lahore 1940-1951 Robert A. Segal Diagnosis Rather than Dialogue as the Best Way to Study Religion Peter Slater Wilfred Smith's Prophetic Sense of History and Proposal Regarding Verification K. R. Sundararajan Study of Religion as Study of Religious Persons Donald K. Swearer The Moral Imagination of Wilfred Cantwell Smith Wilfred Cantwell Smith: A Bibliography Contributors Index"

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Ellen Aitken (1961-2014) was the Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University. Arvind Sharma is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University and the author of many books, including One Religion Too Many: The Religiously Comparative Reflections of a Comparatively Religious Hindu; Hinduism as a Missionary Religion; and Religious Studies and Comparative Methodology: The Case for Reciprocal Illumination, all also published by SUNY Press.

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