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Oliver Freiberger: Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies

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  • ‘About time.’ This is what I think repeatedly when reading Oliver Freiberger’s new book about the comparative method in religious studies

  • We are aware of its issues – the risk of decontextualisation, essentialisation, and universalisation – but not of how to use this awareness to our advantage and get more out of comparison

  • The postmodern and postcolonial critique of comparison has led to many doubts about it – and rightly so

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Oliver Freiberger: Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies. ‘About time.’ This is what I think repeatedly when reading Oliver Freiberger’s new book about the comparative method in religious studies. As Freiberger underlines, comparison is nothing new in religious studies.

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