| Description |
1 online resource (x, 232 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge studies in religion ; 10 |
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Routledge studies in religion ; 10.
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| Contents |
Dialogues on religion and violence at the parliament of the world's religions / John Zavos -- The making of 'religion' in modern China / Francesca Tarocco -- Reclaiming mysticism : anti-orientalism and the construction of 'Islamic sufism' in postcolonial Egypt / Andreas Christmann -- Insider/outsider labelling and the struggle for power in early Judaism / Philip S. Alexander -- Who are the others? Three moments in Sanskrit-based practice / Jacqueline Suthren Hirst -- The continuum of 'sacred language' from high to low speech in the middle Iranian (Pahlavi) Zoroastrian tradition / Alan Williams -- Articulating Anglicanism : the Church of England and the langauge of the 'other' in the eighteenth century / Jeremy Gregory -- Christianos : defining the self in the Acts of the Apostles / Todd Klutz -- Attributing and rejecting the label 'Hindu' in North India / Mary Searle-Chatterjee -- Idiom, genre, and the politics of self-description on the peripheries of Persian / Nile Green |
| Summary |
Using an approach that is both comparative and historical, and relying upon case studies ranging from China and Iran to India, Britain, America and Kurdistan, the authors of this volume treat religions as discourses that are the products of a particular moment in history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion.
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Religion and sociology.
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects.
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religion (discipline)
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sociology of religion.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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RELIGION -- Reference.
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects
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Religion
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Religion and sociology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Green, Nile.
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Searle-Chatterjee, Mary.
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| ISBN |
9780203926857 |
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0203926854 |
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0415963680 |
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9780415963688 |
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