| The Human Condition: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project Contributor(s): Neville, Robert Cummings (Editor), Berger, Peter L. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0791447804 ISBN-13: 9780791447802 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2000 Annotation: The Comparative Religious Ideas Project is a groundbreaking three-year collaboration among well-known scholars of world religious traditions as well as philosophers, historians, sociologists of religion, and theologians who view religion in more general terms. These resulting three volumes offer an exciting look at important comparisons among major world religions and develop and test a theory of comparison employing the collaborative method. This multi-authored collaborative work on the idea of the human condition as a comparative category cuts across major religious traditions and cultures. Extensive essays by distinguished specialists examine Chinese religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Together the essays provide a multicultural approach to the human condition, discussing both broad sensibilities of religious traditions as well as specific texts. In addition the volume contains an introduction to a sophisticated theory of comparison for religious ideas, including explicit comparisons based on the specialized essays. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Comparative Religion |
| Dewey: 291.22 |
| LCCN: 00020548 |
| Series: Suny Series, the Comparative Religious Ideas Project |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.85" W x 8.92" (1.10 lbs) 365 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This multi-authored collaborative work on the idea of the human condition as a comparative category cuts across major religious traditions and cultures. Extensive essays by distinguished specialists examine Chinese religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Together the essays provide a multi-cultural approach to the human condition, discussing both broad sensibilities of religious traditions as well as specific texts. In addition the volume contains an introduction to a sophisticated theory of comparison for religious ideas, including explicit comparisons based on the specialized essays. Contributors include Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Malcolm David Eckel, Paul Fredriksen, S. Nomanul Haq, Joseph Kanofsky, Livia Kohn, Robert Cummings Neville, Hugh Nicholson, Anthony J. Saldarini, Tina Shepardson, John Thatamanil, and Wesley J. Wildman. |