comparative religions

comparative religions
   This term (from the Latin comparare, meaning "to make equal with," and religio, meaning "respect for the sacred") refers to the academic study of world religions in order to ascertain their similarities and differences in bothdoctrines and practices. The comparative study of religion, which began in the nineteenth century, has used a variety of different methodologies: anthropological, evolutionary, sociological, and so on.

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