Broschiertes Buch

The Human Condition

A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project

Herausgeber: Neville, Robert Cummings

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Robert Cummings Neville is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University, and Dean of the School of Theology. He has written many books, including most recently, Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology; Normative Cultures; The Truth of Broken Symbols; and Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World, all published by SUNY Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 365
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 149mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780791447802
• ISBN-10: 0791447804
• Artikelnr.: 21125381