Overview
- Author is a pioneer in interfaith scholarship
- Seeks to study individuals in ways that are novel to academia.
- Allows scholars who are so disposed to engage in first order questions that concern the spiritual life, as witnessed across multiple traditions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Responses to “Religious Genius”
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book sets forth a new area in the study of extraordinary individuals in religious traditions. It develops the category of “Religious Genius” as an alternative to existing categories, primarily “saint.” It constructs a model by which to appreciate these individuals, suggesting key characteristics such as love, humility, and self-surrender. Religious geniuses transform their traditions and their legacies endure through these very transformations. They also inspire changes across religious boundaries and traditions. The study of religious geniuses in various faith traditions therefore advances interfaith engagement today. The book complements existing, primarily historical, studies of saints by offering a phenomenological approach that seeks to touch the subjectivity of these individuals, and how they have affected the unfolding of their religious traditions.
Reviews
“Religious Genius is a very thorough examination of the problems inherent in using a category that lives in one tradition – here, ‘saint’ – in a broader context that deals with figures in other religious traditions. This book will help in contexts where issues of terminology arise, as an excellent example of an effort to move beyond the application of single-tradition normative terms to other traditions.” (Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Harvard University, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religious Genius
Book Subtitle: Appreciating Inspiring Individuals Across Traditions
Authors: Alon Goshen-Gottstein
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55514-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55513-3Published: 14 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85682-7Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55514-0Published: 29 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 196
Topics: Comparative Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Sociology of Religion