Research Catalog

Title

Regimes of comparatism : frameworks of comparison in history, religion and anthropology / edited by Renaud Gagné; Simon Goldhill; Geoffrey Lloyd.

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Gagné, Renaud, 1976-
• Goldhill, Simon
• Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933-

Description

x, 463 pages : Illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Historically, all societies have used comparison to analyze cultural difference through the interaction of religion, power, and translation. When comparison is a self-reflective practice, it can be seen as a form of comparatism. Many scholars are concerned in one way or another with the practice and methods of comparison, and the need for a cognitively robust relativism is an integral part of a mature historical self-placement. This volume looks at how different theories and practices of writing and interpretation have developed at different times in different cultures and reconsiders the specificities of modern comparative approaches within a variety of comparative moments. The idea is to reconsider the specificities, the obstacles, and the possibilities of modern comparative approaches in history and anthropology through a variety of earlier and parallel comparative horizons. Particular attention is given to the exceptional role of Athens and Jerusalem in shaping the Western understanding of cultural difference.

Series Statement

Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 1570-078x ; volume 24

Uniform Title

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 24.

Subjects

• History
• Anthropology
• Religions
• Comparison (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: regimes of comparatism / Renaud Gagné -- Comparisons compared: a study in the early modern roots of cultural history / Anthony Grafton -- What was the comparative history of religions in 17th-century Europe (and beyond)? Pagan monotheism/pagan animism, from T'ien to Tylor / Dmitri Levitin -- Comparing cultures in the early modem world: hierarchies, genealogies and the idea of European modernity / Joan-Pau Rubiés -- Comparison and Christianity: sacrifice in the age of the encyclopedia / Jonathan Sheehan -- The Isis of Turin affair / Renaud Gagné -- What has Alexandria to do with Jerusalem?: writing the history of the Jews in the 19th century / Simon Goldhill -- Akbar's dream : the Mughal emperor in nineteenth-century literature / Phiroze Vasunia -- History of religions: the comparative moment / Guy G. Stroumsa -- Going full frontal: two modalities of comparison in social anthropology / Matei Candea -- Placing self amid others: a Mongolian technique of comparison / Caroline Humphrey -- Anthropological Comparatisms: generalisation, symmetrisation, bifurcation / Philippe Descola -- Friendship and kinship: comparatism and its theoretical possibilities in anthropology / Marilyn Strathern -- The fortunes of comparatism: history, anthropology, philosophy / Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd .

Call Number

JFE 19-11214

ISBN

• 9789004387621
• 9004387625
• 9789004387638 (canceled/invalid)
• 9004387633 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1082870646

Title

Regimes of comparatism : frameworks of comparison in history, religion and anthropology / edited by Renaud Gagné; Simon Goldhill; Geoffrey Lloyd.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 1570-078x ; volume 24

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 24.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gagné, Renaud, 1976- editor.

Goldhill, Simon, editor.

Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-11214