Regimes of comparatism : : frameworks of comparison in history, religion and anthropology / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Brill,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (473 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.