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978-0-7618-6082-2 • Hardback • July 2013 • $73.00 • (£56.00)
Seyed Javad Miri is a Swedish-Iranian associate professor of sociology and history of religions at the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies. He is also a professor in the Department of Philosophy of Science at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. His most recent publication, Alternative Sociology: Probing into the Sociological Thought of Allama M. T. Jafari, was published in 2012 by London Academy of Iranian Studies.
Prologue by Dustin J. Byrd
Introduction
Chapter 1: Relocating the Parameters of Comparative Philosophy
Chapter 2: Sir Bertrand Russell in a Snapshot
Methodic Doubt
Incommensurability Revisited
Philosophy: What’s in a Name?
Religion and Philosophical Problematiques
Russell and Religion
On Religion and Founders of Religion
Chapter 3: The Global Future of Religion
Intellectuals versus Sages
Non-discursive Historiography of Intellectual History
Religion and Eurocentrism in Russellian Paradigm
Religion and the Question of Nihilism
Revelation and Intellect
The Roots of Religion
Religion and Philosophical Inquiry
The Permanent Phenomena
The Transitory Phenomena
Criterion of Distinction
The Global Future of Religion
Epilogue
References
Seyed Javad Miri points out that there remains a need for comparative philosophy within the modern world—an examination of the commitments, assumptions, worldviews, and lifeworlds [of both parties]. . . . [This will serve] to clear a path of demystification so that people of different societies and backgrounds may enter into a civil dialogue, discourse, and debate so as not to ‘win’ over the opponent, but to gain the understanding of a friend.
— Dustin J. Byrd, professor of humanities, Western Michigan University