Judaism and Asian Religions: Editor's Introduction

Kasimow, Harold

doi:10.1353/sho.1999.0135

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“…This ongoing collaboration between scholars of South Asia and Judaica has inspired the publication of a number of important works. A significant milestone was the publication in 1999 of Judaism and Asian Religions, edited by Harold Kasimow, as a special issue of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies (Kasimow 1999). Such wide-ranging collections are complemented by monographs and edited volumes that interrogate and reimagine important analytical categories in the study of religion through sustained comparative studies of Hindu and Jewish traditions-for example, scripture (Holdrege 1996), sacrifice (McClymond 2008), hospitality (Bornet 2010), food (Gross and Whitmore 2018), and law (Theodor and Greenberg 2018).…”

Section: Hindu-jewish Encounters: Ongoing Comparative Initiativesmentioning

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Interrogating the Comparative Method: Whither, Why, and How?1

Holdrege

2018

Religions

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This essay seeks to illuminate the problematics, methods, and dynamics of comparison by interrogating how certain analytical categories in the study of religion, such as scripture and the body, can be fruitfully reimagined through a comparative analysis of their Hindu and Jewish instantiations. I consider a range of issues that are critical to any productive comparative study, and I reflect more specifically on the principal components of my own comparative method in light of Oliver Freiberger's analytical framework: the goals of comparative analysis; the modes of comparison; the parameters that define the scope and the scale of the comparative inquiry; and the operations involved in the comparative process, beginning with selection of the specific traditions and analytical categories to be addressed and formulation of the organizational design of the study and culminating in the re-visioned categories and models in the study of religion that constitute the fruits of the comparative inquiry.

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Section: Hindu-jewish Encounters: Ongoing Comparative Initiativesmentioning

confidence: 99%