Abrahamic Religions: On the Uses and Abuses of History, Aaron W. Hughes's 2012 monograph from Oxford University Press, is a scholarly genealogy and critique of Abrahamic religions as a comparative category, arguing the term projects a shared unchanging essence onto three traditions that in fact describe their relation to Abraham in incompatible ways. Hughes is an established scholar of Islamic and Jewish thought and the book's authority rests on that specialist standing and its engagement with the category's intellectual history. Its limit is that it is itself a position in an ongoing debate about comparative categories, not a neutral survey. Cite it for the standing of the category term itself, not for a claim about any one site or tradition.
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Aaron W. Hughes's Abrahamic Religions, On the Uses and Abuses of History, published by Oxford University Press in 2012, is a peer reviewed critical monograph by a scholar of comparative religion, treated at the top tier as academic press scholarship. NotesA genealogy and critique of "Abrahamic religions" as a comparative category, arguing that the term projects a shared unchanging essence onto three traditions that describe their relation to Abraham in incompatible ways. Cited here for the standing of the category itself, not for any claim about a site. The corpus held Volf (ed.), Do We Worship the Same God?, but nothing on the category term.
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AuthorAaron W. Hughes
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication Year2012
Source TypeMonograph
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