Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith

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.

• Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Arvind SharmaIntroductionDiana L. EckReligious Studies—The Academic and Moral Challenge: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell SmithJohn B. CarmanWilfred Cantwell Smith: Academic ArchitectPurushottama BilimoriaThe Meaningful "End" of God, Faith, and ScriptureThomas B. CoburnAnticipating the Emergence of "Contemplative Studies": Reflections on the Work of Wilfred Cantwell SmithHarvey CoxFaith and Belief RevisitedWilliam A. GrahamWilfred Cantwell Smith and "Orientalism"John Stratton HawleyEnabling Antinomies: Tensions and Tensile Strength in Wilfred Cantwell SmithJonathan R. HermanWho Cares If the Qur’an Is the Word of God? W. C. Smith’s Charge to the Aspiring Public Intellectual Amir HussainTowards a Hermeneutic of Humanity: Wilfred Cantwell Smith and the Study of MuslimsSheila McDonoughWilfred Cantwell Smith in Lahore 1940–1951Robert A. SegalDiagnosis Rather than Dialogue as the Best Way to Study ReligionPeter SlaterWilfred Smith’s Prophetic Sense of History and Proposal Regarding VerificationK. R. SundararajanStudy of Religion as Study of Religious PersonsDonald K. SwearerThe Moral Imagination of Wilfred Cantwell SmithWilfred Cantwell Smith: A BibliographyContributorsIndex