Edwin Hatch argued for the comparability of early Christian and Greco-Roman institutional forms. But his critics dismissed Hatch's comparanda for being insufficiently precise, and thus no threat to the uniqueness of Christian forms. This paper explores comparison, the complexities of claiming comparability in specific cases, arguing that the process of identifying comparanda is political and strategic, used both as a tool and a weapon, and too often in the study of religion - as in the case of Hatch's critics - comparison is wielded in the service of incomparability, a strategic move that can be called comparatio iniquitatis causa (comparison for the sake of difference).
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2014
توصيف ظاهري
331-344
عنوان
Religion and Theology
شماره جلد
20/3-4
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1574-3012
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
analogical thinking
اصطلاح موضوعی
comparing Christian phenomena
اصطلاح موضوعی
Edwin Hatch
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
History of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion & Society
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social Sciences
اصطلاح موضوعی
taxonomy
اصطلاح موضوعی
Theology and World Christianity
اصطلاح موضوعی
theorizing comparison
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