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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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World Religions in the Academy Today | |
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The Discourse on Religion as a Discourse of Othering | |
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A Synoptic Overview | |
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Writing History in the Age of Theory: A Brief Discourse on Method | |
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"The Religions of the World" before "World Religions" | |
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"World Religions" in the Age of World Wars | |
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Early Modern Taxonomy, or the Order of Nations | |
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Before the Birth of Science | |
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The Legacy of Comparative Theology | |
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Two Pioneers: Frederick Denison Maurice and James Freeman Clarke | |
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Strategies for Representation | |
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A Critic: Charles Hardwick | |
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The Variety of Parascientific Comparativism | |
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The Birth Trauma of World Religions | |
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Buddhism, a World Religion | |
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Before Buddhism | |
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Europe Discovers Buddhism | |
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Buddhism and the Future of Europe | |
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Philology and the Discovery of a Fissure in the European Past | |
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The Discovery of the Indo-European Past | |
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The Birth of Comparative Grammar | |
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The Supremacy of Inflection | |
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The Essential Nature of the Semitic: Ernest Renan | |
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Islam, a Semitic Religion | |
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The Problem of Islam for Premodern and Early Modern Europe | |
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The Problem of Semitism and Aryanism for Nineteenth-Century Europe | |
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Islam, the Arab Religion: Abraham Kuenen | |
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Sufism, an Aryan Islam: Otto Pfleiderer | |
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Philologist Out of Season: F. Max M�ller on the Classification of Language and Religion | |
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The Aristocracy of Book Religions | |
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On the Possibility of the Common Origin of Languages | |
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The Trouble with the Turanian | |
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The Real Trouble with the Turanian | |
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A Tale of Two Burnoufs | |
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Interregnum: Omnibus Guide for Looking toward the Twentieth Century | |
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Bequest of the Nineteenth Century: The Sacred Books of the East, 1879-1910 | |
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The World's Parliament of Religions, 1893 | |
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Amateur Interests Have Their Say: Private Foundations and Endowed Lectureships | |
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Colonial Self-Articulation | |
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Transitional Systems | |
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The Question of Hegemony: Ernst Troeltsch and the Reconstituted European Universalism Unconcluding Scientific Postscript | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |