The Implied Spider, Updated with a New Preface: Politics and Theology in Myth
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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 theBhagavad 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.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Wendy Doniger
- Language
- English
- Series
- American Lectures on the History of Religions
- ISBN
- 9780231156424
- Release date
- 2010
