Description: In many ways, the method of comparison in the study of religion is connected to European expansion and empire building. This work explores the early modern origins of the comparative method for the cross-cultural study of religion, beginning with its roots in the earliest missionary contact in the Spanish conquest and concluding with the Victorian anthropologists of the British Empire. Ammon explores the development of the comparative method in religion from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, approaching the history of comparison by tracing its development from the...
Description: In many ways, the method of comparison in the study of religion is connected to European expansion and empire building. This work explore...
About the Contributor(s): Nigel Ajay Kumar is a faculty member in the Theology Department at South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS) in Bangalore, India.
About the Contributor(s): Nigel Ajay Kumar is a faculty member in the Theology Department at South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIAC...
