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Format: 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-7486-5311-2 , 9786610762521 , 1-280-76252-7 , 0-7486-3025-2

Content: This book offers a unique comparative exploration of the role of tradition in Islam and Christianity. In comparing the role of tradition in Islam and Christianity, key themes are explored such as the roles of authority, fundamentalism, the use of reason, and ijtihad (independent thinking).

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). , Preface and acknowledgements -- , Abbreviations -- , Preparation for a threefold sieve -- , Whose agenda for the twenty-first century? -- , The twentieth century revisited : surveys and approaches -- , The way of the historian of religion -- , The way of the anthropologist -- , The way of the traveller -- , Methodologies for a new millennium -- , Phenomenology, Husserl and Heidegger : object -- , Semiotics and Eco : sign -- , Theology and Eliade : the sacred -- , The sacred and the profane -- , Mircea Eliade, the sacred and Islam -- , Case studies -- , Case study ground zero : object -- , Case study ground zero : sign -- , Case study ground zero : the sacred -- , Samuel Huntington revisited -- , Conclusion. , Orthodoxy and heterodoxy : worn vocabulary explored -- , 2.1. , Rejecting the terms : Baldick contra Popovic and Veinstein -- , Christianity : sources of authority and right doctrines -- , The authority of the ekklēsía (1). Arius and Arianism -- , The authority of the ekklēsía (2). Augustine, Manichaeism and the flesh rejected -- , Readings : Christianity -- , Readings : Christianity -- , Reading the phenomena of Christianity -- , Reading the signs of Christianity -- , Reading the sacred in Christianity -- , Islam : sources of authority and right doctrines -- , The authority of the text (1) : Ibn Ḥanbal and the text transcendent -- , The authority of the text (2) : Al-Ghazālī and the Ismāʻīlī Imām -- , Readings : Islam -- , Reading the phenomena of Islam -- , Reading the signs of Islam -- , Reading the sacred in Islam -- , Conclusion. , The flight to tradition : a paradigm of return and denial -- , Christian tradition : definitions and distinctions -- , Shadow and spirit : the Second Vatican Council -- , Pre-conciliar : Pascendi and Divino Afflante Spiritu -- , Intra-conciliar : Dei Verbum and John XXIII -- , Post-conciliar : the spirit and practice of Marcel Lefebvre -- , Sunna : definitions and distinctions -- , Neo-Ijtihād and return to the Salaf -- , Tradition, purification, Kénōsis and return -- , Notes -- , Bibliography of works cited -- , Primary sources -- , Secondary sources -- , Contemporary media sources -- , Index. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-7486-2391-4

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-7486-2392-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780748630257