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The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, Arvind Sharma, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken,Arvind Sharma
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The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, Arvind Sharma, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken,Arvind Sharma
About This Book
This is the first work to address the legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916ā2000), whose intellectual and institutional contributions helped shape the field of religious studies in the latter half of the twentieth century. As a young scholar, Smith taught Indian and Islamic history in Lahore for several years and witnessed the partition of India. Upon his return to North America, he obtained his PhD at Princeton University before embarking upon a long and distinguished career. He founded the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University and served as director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. Smith emphasized the place of the scholarly study of Islam in the Western academy long before Islam occupied its current position at the center of global politics, challenged the notion of monolithic world religions, and argued for the importance of dialogical processes and a personalist approach to the study of religion. Contributors to this volume, many of whom were Smith's students, provide a wide-ranging exploration of his influence and legacy.
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Religious StudiesāThe Academic and Moral Challenge: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith
- Wilfred Cantwell Smith: Academic Architect
- The Meaningful āEndā of God, Faith, and Scripture
- Anticipating the Emergence of āContemplative Studiesā: Reflections on the Work of Wilfred Cantwell Smith
- Faith and Belief Revisited
- Wilfred Cantwell Smith and āOrientalismā
- Enabling Antinomies: Tensions and Tensile Strength in Wilfred Cantwell Smith
- Who Cares If the Qurāan Is the Word of God? W. C. Smithās Charge to the Aspiring Public Intellectual
- Towards a Hermeneutic of Humanity: Wilfred Cantwell Smith and the Study of Muslims
- Wilfred Cantwell Smith in Lahore 1940ā1951
- Diagnosis Rather than Dialogue as the Best Way to Study Religion
- Wilfred Smithās Prophetic Sense of History and Proposal Regarding Verification
- Study of Religion as Study of Religious Persons
- The Moral Imagination of Wilfred Cantwell Smith
- Wilfred Cantwell Smith: A Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover