A Museum of Faiths Histories and Legacies of

This book reexamines the meaning and significance of the first World's Parliament of Religions and its impact on the development of the academic study of religion. Held in Chicago in 1893, the Parliament attracted the participation of religious leaders from different faiths and a smallernumber of academics who studied religion from what they called "scientific" perspectives. Following an introduction by the editor, the essays are organized into three sections. Part I reissues six papers on comparative religion from the Parliament's original proceedings. Part II contains twoarticles, both written within a year of the Parliament, that express an early appraisal of the significance of the Parliament for world religious history and the comparative study of religion. A third and final Part contains eight contemporary essays reassessing the Parliament itself and its impacton interfaith dialogue and comparative religion.

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Proceedings, 1893
Service of the Science of Religions to the Cause of Religious Unity	p. 69
On the Study of Comparative Theology	p. 75
Conditions and Outlook for a Universal Religion	p. 85
Principles of the Scientific Classification of Religions	p. 91
The Comparative Study of the World's Religions	p. 95
Serious Study of All Religions	p. 111
Appraisal, 1894
Results of the Parliament of Religions	p. 131
The Real Significance of the Parliament of Religions	p. 149
Reassessment, 1983-93
A Cosmopolitan Habit in Theology	p. 165
The 1893 World's Parliament of Religions and Its Legacy	p. 171
Pluralism and the American Mainstream: The View from the World's Parliament of Religions	p. 191
Protap Chandra Majumdar and Swami Vivekananda at the Parliament of Religions: Two Interpretations of Hinduism and Universal Religion	p. 219
Dharmapala at Chicago: Mahayana Buddhist or Sinhala Chauvinist?	p. 235
The Reconvening of Babel: Eastern Buddhism and the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions	p. 251
Waking Up from Akbar's Dream: The Literary Prefiguration of Chicago's 1893 World's Parliament of Religions	p. 305
Rediscovering Women's Voices at the World's Parliament of Religions	p. 325
Notes on the Authors	p. 345
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A Museum of Faiths Histories and Legacies of the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions

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