Bloomsbury Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Changing Religions in a Changing World (Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

About the Author R. J. Zwi Werblowsky was Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Product Description First delivered in 1974 as one of the Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, this book considers and compares traditional or pre-modern and post-traditional or post-modern religions. It assesses the processes as well as the images of change in various cultures principally Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism and examines how these religions handle the dialects of rejection, appropriation and integration.