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Apples and Oranges

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Apples and Oranges

By Bruce Lincoln

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About the book

Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to take things correspondingly as they are. Examining the practice of comparison across the study of history, language, religion, and culture, distinguished scholar of religion Bruce Lincoln argues in Apples and Oranges for a comparatism of a more modest s...Show more

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9780226564074

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The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2018

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Apples and Oranges

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