Comparing Religions

Prologue: "Welcome to the Future" xvii

A Comment on the Cover Image and the Paintings xxvi

List of Illustrations xxvii

Acknowledgments ... and Color xxxi

Part I Prehistory, Preparation, and Perspective 1

Introduction: Beginnings 3

1 If Horses Had Hands: Comparative Practices in Global History 9

2 From the Bible to the Buddha: Recent History of the Modern Practice 47

3 The Magic of Comparison: Reflexivity and Some Related Skills 87

Part II Comparative Acts 123

4 Telling and Performing the World: The Creative Functions of Myth and Ritual 125

5 The Super Natural: Religion, Nature, and Science 161

6 Seed and Soil: Sex, Race, and the Bodies of Religion 199

7 Transmitting the Power: Charisma, Society, Technology 239

8 Angels, Aliens, and Art: The Imagination and the Paranormal 275

9 The Human as Two: Soul, Salvation, and the End of All Things 313

Part III Putting It All Together Again 349

10 Faithful Rereadings: Exclusivism, Inclusivism, Pluralism, and Justice 353

11 Rational Rereadings: Masters of Suspicion, Classical and Contemporary 389

12 Reflexive Rereadings: Looking at the Looker 427

Epilogue: The Moonshot 465

Glossary 469

Index 483

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