Knowingo

At a glance

Author
Tomoko Masuzawa
Reading time
8 hours

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. World Religions in the Academy Today
  4. 2. The Discourse on Religion as a Discourse of Othering
  5. 3. A Synoptic Overview
  6. 4. Writing History in the Age of Theory: A Brief Discourse on Method
  7. PART 1
  8. 1. “World Religions” in the Age of World Wars
  9. 2. Early Modern Taxonomy, or the Order of Nations
  10. 3. Before the Birth of Science
  11. 1. Two Pioneers: Frederick Denison Maurice and James Freeman Clarke
  12. 2. Strategies for Representation
  13. 3. A Critic: Charles Hardwick
  14. 4. The Variety of Parascientific Comparativism
  15. PART 2
  16. 1. Before Buddhism
  17. 2. Europe Discovers Buddhism
  18. 3. Buddhism and the Future of Europe
  19. 1. The Discovery of the Indo-European Past
  20. 2. The Birth of Comparative Grammar
  21. 3. The Supremacy of Inflection
  22. 4. The Essential Nature of the Semitic: Ernest Renan
  23. 1. The Problem of Islam for Premodern and Early Modern Europe
  24. 2. The Problem of Semitism and Aryanism for Nineteenth-Century Europe
  25. 3. Islam, the Arab Religion: Abraham Kuenen
  26. 4. Sufism, an Aryan Islam: Otto Pfleiderer
  27. 1. The Aristocracy of Book Religions
  28. 2. On the Possibility of the Common Origin of Languages
  29. 3. The Trouble with the Turanian
  30. 4. The Real Trouble with the Turanian
  31. 5. A Tale of Two Burnoufs
  32. PART 3
  33. 1. Bequest of the Nineteenth Century: The Sacred Books of the East, 1879–1910
  34. 2. The World’s Parliament of Religions, 1893
  35. 3. Amateur Interests Have Their Say: Private Foundations and Endowed Lectureships
  36. 4. Colonial Self-Articulation
  37. 5. Transitional Systems
  38. Unconcluding Scientific Postscript

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