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Wendy Doniger's foundational study is both modern in its engagement with a diverse range of religions and refreshingly classic in its transhistorical cross-cultural approach. By responsibly analyzing patterns and themes across context Doniger reinvigorates the comparative reading of religion tapping into a wealth of narrative traditions from the instructive tales of Judaism and Christianity to the moral lessons of the Bhagavad Gita. She extracts political meaning from a variety of texts while respecting the original ideas of each. A new preface confronts the difficulty of contextualizing the comparison of religions as well as controversies over choosing subjects and positioning arguments and the text itself is expanded and updated throughout.
TITLE: The Implied Spider
AUTHOR: Wendy Doniger
SKU: 9780231156424
PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 19/11/2010
PLACE PUBLISHED: United States
PAGES: 256
BINDING: Paperback / softback
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 152 mm x 229 mm