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Ultimate Realities: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project
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Ultimate Realities: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project Hardcover - 2000

by Robert Cummings Neville (Editor); Foreword by Tu Wei-Ming


From the publisher

The idea of ultimacy as a comparative category that cuts across major religious traditions and cultures is discussed in Ultimate Realities, a multi-authored collaborative work. In this light, Chinese religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are examined by distinguished specialist historians. Two senses of ultimacy emerged in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project from which this volume came. One is the ultimacy of ontological matters such as God, the Dao, or Brahman. The other is the anthropological ultimacy of religious quests such as the Buddhist journey to enlightenment which does not stress any ontological ultimate, and indeed in some forms considers ontological ultimates to be problematic. Underneath this comparative study is a theory and method of comparison which are discussed at length and embodied in the project. Contributors include John H. Berthrong, Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Malcolm David Eckel, Paula Fredriksen, S. Nomanul Haq, Joseph Kanofsky, Livia Kohn, James E. Miller, Robert Cummings Neville, Hugh Nicholson, Anthony J. Saldarini, Tina Shepardson, John Thatamanil, and Wesley J. Wildman.

Details

  • Title Ultimate Realities: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project
  • Author Robert Cummings Neville (Editor); Foreword by Tu Wei-Ming
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 391
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Date 2000
  • ISBN 9780791447758 / 0791447758
  • Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00020269
  • Dewey Decimal Code 291.2

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2001, Page 9

About the author

Robert Cummings Neville is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University, and Dean of the School of Theology. He has written many books, including most recently, Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology; Normative Cultures; The Truth of Broken Symbols; and Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World, all published by SUNY Press.