Format:
1 Online-Ressource (466 pages)
ISBN:
9789004387638
Series Statement:
Jerusalem studies in religion and culture volume 24
Content:
Introduction: Regimes of Comparatism /Renaud Gagné -- Comparisons Compared: A Study in the Early Modern Roots of Cultural History /Anthony Grafton -- What Was the Comparative History of Religions in 17th-Century Europe (and Beyond)? Pagan Monotheism/Pagan Animism, from T’ien to Tylor /Dmitri Levitin -- Comparing Cultures in the Early Modern World: Hierarchies, Genealogies and the Idea of European Modernity /Joan-Pau Rubiés -- Comparison and Christianity: Sacrifice in the Age of the Encyclopedia /Jonathan Sheehan -- The Isis of Turin Affair /Renaud Gagné -- What Has Alexandria to Do with Jerusalem?: Writing the History of the Jews in the 19th Century /Simon Goldhill -- Akbar’s Dream: The Mughal Emperor in Nineteenth-Century Literature /Phiroze Vasunia -- History of Religions: The Comparative Moment /Guy G. Stroumsa -- Going Full Frontal: Two Modalities of Comparison in Social Anthropology /Matei Candea -- Placing Self Amid Others: A Mongolian Technique of Comparison /Caroline Humphrey -- Anthropological Comparatisms: Generalisation, Symmetrisation, Bifurcation /Philippe Descola -- Friendship and Kinship: Comparatism and Its Theoretical Possibilities in Anthropology /Marilyn Strathern -- The Fortunes of Comparatism: History, Anthropology, Philosophy /Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd.
Content:
Historically, all societies have used comparison to analyze cultural difference through the interaction of religion, power, and translation. When comparison is a self-reflective practice, it can be seen as a form of comparatism. Many scholars are concerned in one way or another with the practice and methods of comparison, and the need for a cognitively robust relativism is an integral part of a mature historical self-placement. This volume looks at how different theories and practices of writing and interpretation have developed at different times in different cultures and reconsiders the specificities of modern comparative approaches within a variety of comparative moments. The idea is to reconsider the specificities, the obstacles, and the possibilities of modern comparative approaches in history and anthropology through a variety of earlier and parallel comparative horizons. Particular attention is given to the exceptional role of Athens and Jerusalem in shaping the Western understanding of cultural difference
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004387621
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Regimes of comparatism Leiden : Brill, 2018 ISBN 9789004387621
Language:
English
Keywords:
Vergleichende Forschung
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Geschichte
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Religion
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Anthropologie
DOI:
10.1163/9789004387638
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