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„Jeffrey Kripal provides a thoughtful and compelling discussion of key themes, ideas, and challenges that ground study of religion across traditions and geographies. It is a layered and textured treatment that will capture the imagination and engage students from start to finish. This important and timely text is not to be missed.“--Anthony B. Pinn, author Introducing African American Religion„Comparing Religions is a lucid, entertaining, and even fun introduction to the comparative study of religion. It will be effective with its target audience, young people and the undergraduate classroom, because while they must wrestle with the way scholars deconstruct and reduce to social or evolutionary functions such phenomena, Kripal never loses sight of the experiences and meanings of those transformed by, engaged in, and mobilized through it. There is no better single volume to entice students into the fraught and fascinating study of religion.“--Bron Taylor, author of Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future and editor of The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
Comparing Religions is a next-generation textbook which expertly guides, inspires, and challenges those who wish to think seriously about religious pluralism in the modern world.
* A unique book teaching the art and practice of comparing religions
* Draws on a wide range of religious traditions to demonstrate the complexity and power of comparative practices
* Provides both a history and understanding of comparative practice and a series of thematic chapters showing how responsible practice is done
* A three part structure provides readers with a map and effective process through which to grasp this challenging but fascinating approach
* The author is a leading academic, writer, and exponent of comparative practice
* Contains numerous learning features, including chapter outlines, summaries, toolkits, discussion questions, a glossary, and many images
* Supported by a companion website (available on publication) at www. wiley. com/go/kripal, which includes information on individual religious traditions, links of other sites, an interview with the author, learning features, and much more
* A unique book teaching the art and practice of comparing religions
* Draws on a wide range of religious traditions to demonstrate the complexity and power of comparative practices
* Provides both a history and understanding of comparative practice and a series of thematic chapters showing how responsible practice is done
* A three part structure provides readers with a map and effective process through which to grasp this challenging but fascinating approach
* The author is a leading academic, writer, and exponent of comparative practice
* Contains numerous learning features, including chapter outlines, summaries, toolkits, discussion questions, a glossary, and many images
* Supported by a companion website (available on publication) at www. wiley. com/go/kripal, which includes information on individual religious traditions, links of other sites, an interview with the author, learning features, and much more
