The comity and grace of method : essays in honor of Edmund F. Perry / edited by Thomas Ryba, George D. Bond, and Herman Tull.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ryba, Thomas, 1953-

Bond, George Doherty, 1942-

Tull, Herman Wayne.

Perry, Edmund F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perry, Edmund F--Bibliography.

Perry, Edmund F.

Religion--Methodology.

Religion.

Religion--Study and teaching.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvii, 476 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, [2004]

Summary:

Essays that reflect the interests and influence of a highly distinguished scholar of religions

Contents:

Original phenomenology of religion : a theology of natural religion / Ivan Strenski

The appreciative consciousness : a tool for the study of world religion / Delores J. Rogers

In defense of the comparative method / Robert Segal

Comparative religion and the question of method : a rapprochement of the work of F. Max Miller / Herman W. Tull

Against science in the academic study of religion : on the emergence and development of the American Academy of Religion / Donald Wiebe

Religious studies and Newman's idea of theology : do they have a future in the twenty-first century? / Thomas Ryba

The historical formation of normative Judaism : a phenomenological theory / Jacob Neusner

The second coming of Moses : Deuteronomy and the construction of Israelite identity / Robert L. Cohn

Why I have to learn Hebrew : the doctrine of sanctification / Mary Douglas

The gospelers in disrepute / Christopher Vescey

Evangelicals and the comparative study of religion / Larry Poston

Mystical experience and the definition of Christian mysticism / Richard Kieckhefer

Two reconstructions of Buddhism in Sri Lanka / George D. Bond

From discipline to understanding : the Pali Vinaya Pitaka as paradigm for religious studies methodology / Terry C. Muck

Performing religion : toward a theory of participation for comparative religion / Tod S. Chambers

Schism in the sinhalese Buddhist community of Los Angeles / Paul David Numrich

The dramatic effect of the Buddha on western theories of religion / Ninian Smart

Dialogical reflections on Christian prayer and Zen meditation / Donald W. Mitchell

Delineating the Jewish-Christian dialogue in an overarching typology of religion / M. H. Vogel

Against pluralism : world theology and universal insidership / N. Ross Reat

World theology and the Baha'i Faith / Juan R. I. Cole

Sympathetic imagination : experience, the other, and the feminist argument for pacifism / Cristina L. H. Traina

Seeds of harmony : conflict and cooperation in a global religious perspective / Ursula King.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-465).

ISBN:

0810118912

OCLC:

52542344