“Severing the Joints and the Marrow”:

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" “Severing the Joints and the Marrow”: "
James Constantine Hanges

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082942
Doc. No	:	LA126571
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15743012-12341267‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	James Constantine Hanges
Title & Author	:	“Severing the Joints and the Marrow”: [Article] : The Double-Edged Sword of Comparison\ James Constantine Hanges
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	20/3-4
Page No	:	331–344
Abstract	:	Edwin Hatch argued for the comparability of early Christian and Greco-Roman institutional forms. But his critics dismissed Hatch’s comparanda for being insufficiently precise, and thus no threat to the uniqueness of Christian forms. This paper explores comparison, the complexities of claiming comparability in specific cases, arguing that the process of identifying comparanda is political and strategic, used both as a tool and a weapon, and too often in the study of religion – as in the case of Hatch’s critics – comparison is wielded in the service of incomparability, a strategic move that can be called comparatio iniquitatis causa (comparison for the sake of difference).
Descriptor	:	analogical thinking
Descriptor	:	comparing Christian phenomena
Descriptor	:	Edwin Hatch
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	taxonomy
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Descriptor	:	theorizing comparison
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15743012-12341267‬