Aitken / Sharma The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6470-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

First work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and his influence on the development of religious studies and Islamic studies in the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw

Sharma, Arvind

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Arvind Sharma
Introduction

Diana L. Eck
Religious Studies—The Academic and Moral Challenge: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith

John B. Carman
Wilfred Cantwell Smith: Academic Architect

Purushottama Bilimoria
The Meaningful “End” of God, Faith, and Scripture

Thomas B. Coburn
Anticipating the Emergence of “Contemplative Studies”: Reflections on the Work of Wilfred Cantwell Smith

Harvey Cox
Faith and Belief Revisited

William A. Graham
Wilfred Cantwell Smith and “Orientalism”

John Stratton Hawley
Enabling Antinomies: Tensions and Tensile Strength in Wilfred Cantwell Smith

Jonathan R. Herman
Who Cares If the Qur’an Is the Word of God? W. C. Smith’s Charge to the Aspiring Public Intellectual

Amir Hussain
Towards a Hermeneutic of Humanity: Wilfred Cantwell Smith and the Study of Muslims

Sheila McDonough
Wilfred Cantwell Smith in Lahore 1940–1951

Robert A. Segal
Diagnosis Rather than Dialogue as the Best Way to Study Religion

Peter Slater
Wilfred Smith’s Prophetic Sense of History and Proposal Regarding Verification

K. R. Sundararajan
Study of Religion as Study of Religious Persons

Donald K. Swearer
The Moral Imagination of Wilfred Cantwell Smith

Wilfred Cantwell Smith: A Bibliography

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ellen Aitken (1961–2014) was the Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University. Arvind Sharma is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University and the author of many books, including One Religion Too Many: The Religiously Comparative Reflections of a Comparatively Religious Hindu; Hinduism as a Missionary Religion; and Religious Studies and Comparative Methodology: The Case for Reciprocal Illumination, all also published by SUNY Press.