Religion and Practical Reason
New Essays in the Comparative Philosophy of Religions
Published on 28. October 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
444 pages
978-0-7914-2218-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book contains programmatic essays that focus on broad-ranging proposals for re-envisioning a discipline of comparative philosophy of religions. It also contains a number of case studies focussing on the interpretation of particular religio-historical data from comparatively oriented philosophical perspectives.
Reviews / Votes
"It is exciting to read this kind of intellectual adventure in process. The material is at the cutting edge of an aspect of contemporary religious studies. It is probing towards methodological principles that could be used to further comparative philosophy of religion. The bridges across traditions at a metalevel are intriguing and challenging." - Earle H. Waugh, St. Thomas University"The juxtaposition of the doctrinal, theoretical, and the practical, pragmatic aspects of religions and religious comparisons is a very fruitful approach." - Winston L. King, Vanderbilt University
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
735 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-2218-2 (9780791422182)
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Persons
Frank E. Reynolds is Professor of History of Religions and Buddhist Studies at The Divinity School at The University of Chicago. David Tracy is Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor of Catholic Studies and Theology at The Divinity School at The University of Chicago. They are the editors of Myth and Philosophy and Discourse and Practice, both published by SUNY Press.
Content
Introduction
Frank E. Reynolds
Part I: Self-Understanding and Issues of Practice
1. A Foreword to Comparative Philosophy of Religion
Franklin I. Gamwell
2. What Are Buddhists Doing When They Deny the Self?
Steven Collins
Part II. Types of Reasoning and Issues of Practice
3. Al-Farabi on Religion and Practical Reason
Paul E. Walker
4. In Defense of Rather Fragile and Local Achievement:Reflections on the Work of Gurulugomi
Charles Hallisey
Part III: Practical Reason and the Flow of Time
5. Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in an Islamic Tradition
Aziz Al-Azmeh
6. Dis-solving a Debate: Toward a Practical Theory of Myth, with a Case Study in Vedic Mythology
Laurie L. Patton
7. The Reason of Myth and the Rationality of History:The Logic of the Mythic in Bimin-Kuskusmin "Modes of Thought"
Fitz John Porter Poole
Part IV: Practical Reason and the Negotiation of Difference
8. The Rhetoric of Revolution: Comparative Ethics after Kuhn and Gunnemann
Jeffrey Stout
9. The Fear of Qing : Confucian and Buddhist Discourses on Desire
Francisca Cho Bantly
Concluding Reflections
10. Comparison, Pragmatics, and Interpretation in the Comparative Philosophy of Religions
Richard J. Parmentier
Index
Frank E. Reynolds
Part I: Self-Understanding and Issues of Practice
1. A Foreword to Comparative Philosophy of Religion
Franklin I. Gamwell
2. What Are Buddhists Doing When They Deny the Self?
Steven Collins
Part II. Types of Reasoning and Issues of Practice
3. Al-Farabi on Religion and Practical Reason
Paul E. Walker
4. In Defense of Rather Fragile and Local Achievement:Reflections on the Work of Gurulugomi
Charles Hallisey
Part III: Practical Reason and the Flow of Time
5. Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in an Islamic Tradition
Aziz Al-Azmeh
6. Dis-solving a Debate: Toward a Practical Theory of Myth, with a Case Study in Vedic Mythology
Laurie L. Patton
7. The Reason of Myth and the Rationality of History:The Logic of the Mythic in Bimin-Kuskusmin "Modes of Thought"
Fitz John Porter Poole
Part IV: Practical Reason and the Negotiation of Difference
8. The Rhetoric of Revolution: Comparative Ethics after Kuhn and Gunnemann
Jeffrey Stout
9. The Fear of Qing : Confucian and Buddhist Discourses on Desire
Francisca Cho Bantly
Concluding Reflections
10. Comparison, Pragmatics, and Interpretation in the Comparative Philosophy of Religions
Richard J. Parmentier
Index