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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jane Dammen McAuliffe; Jack Miles |
ISBN: | 0393355020 9780393355024 9780393918984 039391898X |
OCLC Number: | 1004556269 |
Description: | xxx, 659, A3-A27, 8 pages plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
Contents: | How the West Learned to Compare Religions / Jack Miles -- Submission to God as the Wellspring of a Civilization / Jane Dammen McAuliffe. The Foundational Epoch, 610-750. Qur'an: God's Culminating Gift to Humankind -- Sira: The Life Story of the Prophet. The Classical Synthesis, 750-1756. Hadith and Sunna: The Perfect Man Remembered as the Perfect Guide to Life -- Shari'a and Fiqh: Divine Will and Human Interpretation -- The Intellectual Elaboration of the Classical Synthesis -- Belles Lettres: The Fine Arts of Poetry and Prose. The Classical Synthesis Encounters Modernity, 1765 to the Present. Colonialism and Postcolonialism -- The Religious Reassertion -- The Emergence of Women's Voices -- Negotiating Religious Pluralism. |
Series Title: | Norton anthology of world religions. |
Responsibility: | Jane Dammen McAuliffe ; Jack Miles, General Editor, Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies, University of California, Irvine. |
Abstract:
"A major landmark of religious publishing and one to be widely welcomed."-William Dalrymple, New York Times
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