Religious Studies and Comparative Methodology

Religious Studies and Comparative MethodologyA contribution to the methodology of religious studies, this work discusses using comparison to provide mutual illumination among religious traditions while avoiding the problem of assimilating one tradition to another. Comparison is at the heart of religious studies as a discipline and foundational to the field's methodology. In this book, Arvind Sharma introduces the term "reciprocal illumination" to describe the mutual enlightenment that can occur

Drawing upon Black vernacular culture as well as scholarship in rhetorical theory

This collection presents new essays in the complex field of French literary adaptation

Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain is a thrilling example of 19th century adventure fiction

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the relationship between leaders and members of the industry’s key trade union

competency to stand trial

At the end of the American Civil War

and the destruction of functioning ecosystems

Offers an analysis of the dynamics of Taiwan's export-oriented industrialization

Michael Cox develops a theory and practice of environmental property rights

haunted by the untimely death of his fiancé

and rap music in particular