Religion and practical reason : new essays in the comparative philosophy of religions
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Religion and practical reason : new essays in the comparative philosophy of religions
（SUNY series, Toward a comparative philosophy of religions）
State University of New York Press, c1994
- : pbk
Available at 11 libraries
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book contains programmatic essays that focus on broad-ranging proposals for re-envisioning a discipline of comparative philosophy of religions. It also contains a number of case studies focussing on the interpretation of particular religio-historical data from comparatively oriented philosophical perspectives.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Frank E. Reynolds
Part I: Self-Understanding and Issues of Practice
1. A Foreword to Comparative Philosophy of Religion
Franklin I. Gamwell
2. What Are Buddhists Doing When They Deny the Self?
Steven Collins
Part II. Types of Reasoning and Issues of Practice
3. Al-Farabi on Religion and Practical Reason
Paul E. Walker
4. In Defense of Rather Fragile and Local Achievement:Reflections on the Work of Gurulugomi
Charles Hallisey
Part III: Practical Reason and the Flow of Time
5. Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in an Islamic Tradition
Aziz Al-Azmeh
6. Dis-solving a Debate: Toward a Practical Theory of Myth, with a Case Study in Vedic Mythology
Laurie L. Patton
7. The Reason of Myth and the Rationality of History:The Logic of the Mythic in Bimin-Kuskusmin "Modes of Thought"
Fitz John Porter Poole
Part IV: Practical Reason and the Negotiation of Difference
8. The Rhetoric of Revolution: Comparative Ethics after Kuhn and Gunnemann
Jeffrey Stout
9. The Fear of Qing : Confucian and Buddhist Discourses on Desire
Francisca Cho Bantly
Concluding Reflections
10. Comparison, Pragmatics, and Interpretation in the Comparative Philosophy of Religions
Richard J. Parmentier
Index
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