| Title | : | The Implied Spider |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Wendy Doniger |
| Release | : | 2010-12-15 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Comparative Religion, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, Social Science |
| Size | : | 2453860 |
| 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. |
