Publication Date
8-1991
Advisor(s) - Committee Chair
Alan Anderson, Donald Tuck, Ronald Veenker
Degree Program
Department of Philosophy & Religion
Degree Type
Master of Arts
Abstract
The main viewpoints and methods of two important figures of tho "Chicago school" in the comparative study of religion, Wach and Eliade, are investigated, and then are discussed on three levels: the disciplinary, the philosophic,al, and the historical. Or the disciplinary level, their theoretical emphases and methodological characteristics are discerned. On the philosophical level, their presuppositions are classified by an "archic analysis," a scheme of one's philosophical orientation provided by Walter Watson. And on the historical level, their theories are examined against the concrete religious data of Chinese Buddhism. Finally, the conclusion is drawn from the analysis of the relations among these three levels, and the significance of the discipline of comparative religion is interpreted.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Philosophy | Religion
Recommended Citation
Wang, Li, "A Study on Wach's & Eliade's Approaches to Comparative Religion" (1991). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 2939.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2939