Interreligious Comparisons in Religious Studies and Theology

Perry Schmidt-Leukel is Professor of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology at the University of Muenster, Germany. Andreas Nehring is Professor of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology at the University of Erlangen, Germany.

• ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAndreas Nehring, Perry Schmidt-LeukelPart 1 Comparison: Contestation and Defence1 Comparative Methodology and the Religious Studies ToolkitPaul Hedges2 Comparison in the Maelstrom of Historicity: A Postcolonial Perspective on Comparative ReligionMichael Bergunder3 Modes of Comparison: Towards Creating a Methodological Framework for Comparative StudiesOliver Freiberger4 Comparison as a Necessary Evil. Examples from Indian and Jewish WorldsPhilippe Bornet Part 2 Phenomenology and the Foundations of Comparison5 Camouflage of the Sacred – Can We still Branch Off from Eliade’s Comparative Approach?Andreas Nehring6 The Singular and the Shared: Making Amends with Eliade after the Dismissal of the SacredKenneth Rose7 Religious Practice and the Nature of the HumanGavin Flood8 On All-Embracing Mental Structures: Towards a Transcendental Hermeneutics of ReligionFabian VölkerPart 3 Reciprocal Illumination and Comparative Theology9 Comparative Theology and Comparative ReligionKlaus von Stosch10 Reciprocal IlluminationArvind Sharma11 On Creativity, Participation and Normativity. Comparative Theology in Discussion with Arvind Sharma’s Reciprocal Illumination.Ulrich Winkler12 Christ as Bodhisattva – A Case of Reciprocal IlluminationPerry Schmidt-LeukelBibliographyIndex

A contemporary and in-depth study of issues in interreligious comparisons and an impetus for new studies of this topic.