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A statue of Ibn Hazm, father of modern comparative religious studies, in Córdoba Spain. Al-Biruni (973 – c. 1050) and Ibn Hazm (994 – 1064), both of the Islamic Golden Age and considered the "fathers of comparative religion", compared the study of religious pluralism and their works have been significant in the fields of theology and ...
Religious studies, ... In its early years, it was known as "comparative religion" or the science of religion and, in the United States, ...
Comparative religion is the branch of religious studies concerned with the systematic comparison of the similarities and differences in themes, myths, rituals and concepts of the religions of the world.
Notable Muslim comparative theologians, Muslim scholars or preachers engaged in Islamic comparative religion studies include: Ahmad Deedat; Zakir Naik; Hafiz Muhammad Shariq; Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī; Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila; Fakhr al-Din al-Razi; Ibn Hazm; Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari; Rahmatullah Kairanawi; Ismail al-Faruqi; Abu Ammaar Yasir ...
Juergensmeyer taught at the University of California, Berkeley for fifteen years in a joint position as coordinator of religious studies for UC Berkeley and director of the Office of Programs in Comparative Religion at the Graduate Theological Union (1974–89); at the University of Hawaiʻi, he was founding dean of the School of Hawaiian ...
Allahabad University (B.A. 1958), Syracuse University (M.A. in economics, 1970), Harvard University (M.T.S. in Theological Studies, 1974; PhD in Sanskrit and Indian Studies, 1978) Known for Comparative Religion, the philosophy of religion, human rights and religion, theoretical and methodological issues in the study of religion, Advaita Vedanta ...
Studies in Comparative Religion was a quarterly academic journal published from 1963 to 1987 that contained essays on the spiritual practices and religious symbolism of the world's religions. The journal was notable for the number of prominent Perennialists who contributed to it.
Comparative mythology is the comparison of myths from different cultures in an attempt to identify shared themes and ... Religious Studies Review 32.1(2006): 5–10.