Regimes of comparatism : : frameworks of comparison in history, religion and anthropology / / Renaud Gagne.

• Author: Gagne, Renaud.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (473 pages)
• Other title: Introduction: Regimes of Comparatism /; Comparisons Compared: A Study in the Early Modern Roots of Cultural History /; What Was the Comparative History of Religions in 17th-Century Europe (and Beyond)? Pagan Monotheism/Pagan Animism, from T’ien to Tylor /; Comparing Cultures in the Early Modern World: Hierarchies, Genealogies and the Idea of European Modernity /; Comparison and Christianity: Sacrifice in the Age of the Encyclopedia /; The Isis of Turin Affair /; What Has Alexandria to Do with Jerusalem?: Writing the History of the Jews in the 19th Century /; Akbar’s Dream: The Mughal Emperor in Nineteenth-Century Literature /; History of Religions: The Comparative Moment /; Going Full Frontal: Two Modalities of Comparison in Social Anthropology /; Placing Self Amid Others: A Mongolian Technique of Comparison /; Anthropological Comparatisms: Generalisation, Symmetrisation, Bifurcation /; Friendship and Kinship: Comparatism and Its Theoretical Possibilities in Anthropology /; The Fortunes of Comparatism: History, Anthropology, Philosophy /
• ISBN: 9004387633
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Renaud Gagne.

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.