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Explores the human condition in a range of world religions and discusses the issue and philosophical implications of comparison itself.
This multi-authored collaborative work on the idea of the human condition as a comparative category cuts across major religious traditions and cultures. Extensive essays by distinguished specialists examine Chinese religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Together the essays provide a multi-cultural approach to the human condition, discussing both broad sensibilities of religious traditions as well as specific texts. In addition the volume contains an introduction to a sophisticated theory of comparison for religious ideas, including explicit comparisons based on the specialized essays.
Contributors include Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Malcolm David Eckel, Paul Fredriksen, S. Nomanul Haq, Joseph Kanofsky, Livia Kohn, Robert Cummings Neville, Hugh Nicholson, Anthony J. Saldarini, Tina Shepardson, John Thatamanil,, and Wesley J. Wildman.
Foreword
Peter L. Berger
Preface
Robert Cummings Neville
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Robert Cummings Neville with Wesley J. Wildman
1. On Comparing Religious Ideas
Robert Cummings Neville with Wesley J. Wildman
2. Chinese Religion
Livia Kohn
3. Beginningless Ignorance: A Buddhist View of the Human Condition
Malcolm David Eckel with John J. Thatamanil
4. To Be Heard and Done, But Never Quite Seen: The Human Condition According to the Vivekacudamani
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., with Hugh R. Nicholson
5. Religious Dimensions of the Human Condition in Judaism: Wrestling with God in an Imperfect World
Anthony J. Saldarini with Joseph A. Kanofsky
6. Embodiment and Redemption: The Human Condition in Ancient Christianity
Paula Fredriksen with Tina Shepardson
7. The Human Condition in Islam: Shari'a and Obligation
S. Nomanul Haq
8. Comparative Hypotheses: Cosmological Categories for the Human Condition
Robert Cummings Neville with Wesley J. Wildman
9. Comparative Hypotheses: Personal and Social Categories for the Human Condition
Robert Cummings Neville
Appendix A: On the Process of the Project During the First Year
Wesley J. Wildman
Appendix B: Suggestions for Further Reading
Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Subjects