Dumont on Religion: Difference, Comparison, Transgression

ISBN-13: 9781845532734 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 192 str.

Ivan Strenski

Opis

This volume focuses on subjects of particular interest to students and scholars of religion: concepts such as sacred and profane, pure and impure, transcendence, values, ideology, hierarchy, and cross cultural comparison. Attention will also be paid to the ethical implications of Dumont's ideas.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: What Can We Learn from Louis Dumont? Chapter 2: A Contrarian's Most Contrarian Notion: Dumont on Hierarchy Chapter 3: Our Individualism and Its Religious Origins Chapter 4: The Comparative Risks of Comparison: On Not "Remaining Caged within Our Own Frame of Reference" Chapter 5: Conclusion: Dumont's Morality and Social Cosmology

O autorze

Ivan Strenski is Professor and Holstein Endowed Chairholder in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside.