Religion and Practical Reason

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions
• This book contains programmatic essays that focus on broad-ranging proposals for re-envisioning a discipline of comparative philosophy of religions. I... Lees meer

Buddhism and Language

José Ignacio Cabezón

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions
• Taking language as its general theme, this book explores how the tradition of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophical speculation exemplifies the characte... Lees meer

On Being Buddha

Paul J Griffiths

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions
• What is it like to be a Buddha? Is there only one Buddha or are there many? What can Buddhas do and what do they know? Is there anything they cannot d... Lees meer

Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument

David Peter Lawrence

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions
• Provides a comparative philosophical study of the thought of the two principle theorists of monistic Kashmiri Shaivism, Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta, ... Lees meer

Ineffability

Ben-Ami Scharfstein

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions
• Scharfstein describes the extraordinary powers that have been attributed to language everywhere, and then looks at ineffability as it has appeared in ... Lees meer

Seeing Through Texts

Francis X Clooney

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions
• Examines texts and commentaries in the Tamil-language SArivastradition of South India; about the general issues of text, vision, and narrative that su... Lees meer

Applying the Canon in Islam

Brannon M Wheeler

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions
• Argues how the notion of "canon" is used to authorize and maintain certain types of interpretive reasoning and the social institutions that employ the... Lees meer

Discourse and Practice

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions
• Discourse and Practice strives to stretch the boundaries of commonly accepted notions of philosophical discourse in order to introduce comparative con... Lees meer

Embracing Illusion

Francisca Cho

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions
• Embracing Illusion is an interdisciplinary study of a classic Korean novel. It argues that a work of narrative fiction can be taken seriously as Buddh... Lees meer

Scholasticism

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions
• Leading scholars in the field of religious studies show that scholasticism as a comparative category is useful in the analysis of a variety of religio... Lees meer

Myth and Philosophy

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions
• Frank E. Reynolds and David Tracy are at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Lees meer

Protectors or Praetorians?

Carl F Petry

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions
• This analysis of state policy under the last two Mamluk rulers enables modern readers to observe a pivotal era in the history of Egypt and southwest A... Lees meer

Theology After Vedanta

Francis X Clooney

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions
• Francis X. Clooney, S.J. , is Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School. His many books include S... Lees meer