Item Detail
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26821
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2
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English
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Future Prospects in the Comparison of Religions
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 2011
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44
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3
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Stanford, CA
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Dialogue Foundation
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107-114
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One of the insights that has animated the study of comparative religion in the past several decades is that those doing the comparing must be aware of the kinds of knowledge they are serving. The questions involved in the act of comparison will become more prominent in LDS communities as more Latter-day Saints engage in the academic study of religion. Mormons, in general, have struggled with these questions primarily because they reveal that the primary purpose of comparison is often the reassertion of their own truth claims. Here, Ing describes some of the history of this model and proposes an alternative model of comparison. While this model also has shortcomings, it has more potential to be academically sound and at the same time religiously meaningful to Latter-day Saints.