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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 | |