Pathak Figuring Religions

Comparing Ideas, Images, and Activities
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4539-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Offers new ways of comparing features of the world’s religions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pathak, Shubha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Religionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Wendy Doniger
Introduction by Shubha Pathak

Part I. Figuring Religious Ideas

1. Marking Religion’s Boundaries: Constitutive Terms, Orienting Tropes, and Exegetical Fussiness
Thomas A. Tweed

2. “Epic” as an Amnesiac Metaphor: Finding the Word to Compare Ancient Greek and Sanskrit Poems
Shubha Pathak

3. Conceptions of the Self in the Zhuangzi: Conceptual Metaphor Analysis and Comparative Thought
Edward Slingerland

4. Theorizing Embodiment: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the Comparative Study of Religion
James Egge

Part II. Figuring Religious Images

5. Bathed in Milk: Metaphors of Suckling and Spiritual Transmission in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah
Ellen Haskell

6. Metaphors and Images of Dress and Nakedness: Wrappings of Embodied Identity
Terhi Utriainen

Part III. Figuring Religious Activities

7. Poetry, Ritual, and Associational Thought in Early India and Elsewhere
Laurie L. Patton

8. Spatial Metaphors and Women’s Religious Activities in Ancient Greece and China
Yiqun Zhou

9. In Search of Equivalence: Conceiving Muslim-Hindu Encounter through Translation Theory
Tony K. Stewart

Afterword by Glen Alexander Hayes

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shubha Pathak is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at American University.