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Tables of Contents for Religious Truth
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
Jonathan Z. Smith
Preface
xiii
Robert Cummings Neville
Acknowledgments
xxv
Introduction
1
6
Robert Cummings Neville
Wesley J. Wildman
Truth in Chinese Religion
7
36
Livia Kohn
James Miller
General Perspectives
7
4
The Nature of Truth
11
8
Expressions of Truth
19
9
Cultivation and Embodiment of Truth
28
10
Conclusion
38
5
From Truth to Religious Truth in Hindu Philosophical Theology
43
22
Francis X. Clooney
Hugh Nicholson
How They Forged a Conversation on Religious Truth in Ancient India
43
1
Ordinary Truth
44
1
Ordinary Truth as Right Knowing: Pramana, Prameya, Prama
45
1
Religious Truth
46
1
Nyaya: God Is Like a Potmaker
47
3
Mimamsa: No Need for a World-Maker
50
3
Knowing the God of Scripture in Visistadvaita Vedanta
53
2
Advaita Vedanta and the Scriptural Origins of Empirical Truth
55
2
The Hindu Debate about Truth
57
2
Public Discourse and Its Sectarian Roots
59
6
``With Great Noise and Mighty Whirlpools the Ganges Flowed Backwards'': Buddhist Approaches to Truth
65
18
Malcolm David Eckel
John J. Thatamanil
Introduction
65
1
Embodied Truth-in-Practice
66
3
Epistemological Truth
69
7
Scriptural and Revelatory Truth
76
7
``To Practice Together Truth and Humility, Justice and Law, Love of Merciful Kindness and Modes Behavior''
83
26
Anthony J. Saldarini
Joseph Kanofsky
Introduction
83
3
The Biblical Tradition
86
2
The Dead Sea Scrolls
88
5
The Talmud
93
1
Saadia Gaon and Philosophical Truth
94
3
The Response to Modernity
97
3
Conclusions and Comparisons
100
9
Patristic Prama and Pramana: Augustine and the Quest for Truth
109
18
Paula Fredriksen
Introduction
109
1
The One, the Many, and the Problem of Evil
110
1
Mani and Plato
111
4
The Knower, Knowing, and the Known
115
4
Some Comparisons
119
8
The Taxonomy of Truth in the Islamic Religious Doctrine and Tradition
127
18
S. Nomanul Haq
Introduction
127
1
Explication of the Notion of Sidq
128
3
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's Hierarchy of Sidq
131
4
The Ontological Equivalence of Truth and Reality: al-Haqq and al-Haqiqa
135
2
The Epistemological Question
137
1
The Functional Approach: Fiqh and Shara a Recalled
138
1
The Rational-Mystical Approach: The Ghazalian Synthesis
139
1
Essential Reality of the Truth
140
5
Religious Truth in the Six Traditions: A Summary
145
26
Robert Cummings Neville
Wesley J. Wildman
Religious Truth: Our Categories and Their Justification
145
4
Religious Truth as an Epistemological Problem
149
5
Religious Truth as Expressed in Sacred Texts and Objects
154
5
Religious Truth as Cultivation and Embodiment
159
3
Religious Truth as Opposed to Error, Deceit, and Failure
162
9
A Contemporary Understanding of Religious Truth
171
32
Robert Cummings Neville
Wesley J. Wildman
Truths in Religion
171
5
Truth in Interpretation
176
6
Truth in Reference
182
5
Truth in Achieved Meaning
187
4
Truth in Transformation
191
12
On the Nature of Religion: Lesson We Have Learned
203
16
Wesley J. Wildman
Robert Cummings Neville
Remarks on Our Experience of Studying Religion
204
4
Remarks on Our Construction of Theories of Aspects of Religion
208
3
Remarks on the Relation between Comparison and Theory Building
211
2
Conjectures on Comparison and Theories of Religion
213
6
Director's Conclusions
219
8
Robert Cummings Neville
Appendix A: On the Process of the Project During the Third Year
227
10
Wesley J. Wildman
Appendix B: Suggestions for Further Reading
237
88
List of Contributors
325
2
Index of Names
327
4
Index of Subjects
331