Religionswissenschaft und Theologie – Frag-Würdigkeit (inter-)religiöser Vergleiche (aktualisiert)

Perry Schmidt-Leukel / Andreas Nehring (eds.): Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology. Comparison revisited London / Oxford u.a.: Bloomsbury 2016, 240 pp., indexISBN 978-1474-28851-8   Verlagsinformation:  Can religions be compared? For decades the discipline of religious studies was based on the assumption that they can. Postmodern and postcolonial reflections, however, raised significant doubts. In social […]

Konfuzius-Porträts: Die Rezeption des Konfuzianismus von 1560 bis 1960

 Kevin DeLapp (ed.): Portraits of ConfuciusThe Reception of Confucianism from 1560 to 1960Volume I and IILondon: Bloomsbury 2022ISBN-10: ‎ 1350079227ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1350079229 Description Portraits of Confucius presents a major collection of Western perspectives on Confucius and Confucianism, stretching from the Catholic missions of the sixteenth century to the dawn of modern cross-cultural scholarship in the early-twentieth century. For scholars […]

Kurz vorgestellt: Neue Muster komparativer Religion

New Patterns for Comparative Religion Passages to an Evolutionary Perspective.  By: William E. Paden New York u.a.: Bloomsbury 2016, 264 pp. Series: Academic Scietific Studies ISBN: 978-1474252119  Verlagsinformationen The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time.  These frames, whether focused on psychology or […]