Islam, Christianity and tradition: a comparative exploration

Preparation for a Threefold Sieve 1.1 Whose Agenda for the 21st Century? 1.2 The 20th Century Revisited: Surveys and Approaches 1.2.1 The Way of the Historian of Religion 1.2.2 The Way of the Anthropologist 1.2.3 The Way of the Traveller 1.3 Methodologies for a New Millennium 1.3.1 Phenomenology, Husserl and Heidegger: Object 1.3.2 Semiotics and Eco: Sign 1.3.3 Theology and Eliade: The Sacred 1.3.3.1 The Sacred and the Profane 1.3.3.2 Mircea Eliade, the Sacred and Islam 1.4.1 Case Study Ground Zero: Object 1.4.2 Case Study Ground Zero: Sign 1.4.3 Case Study Ground Zero: The Sacred 1.5 Samuel Huntington Revisited 1.6 Conclusion 2. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: A Worn Vocabulary Explored 2.1 Rejecting the Terms: Baldick contra Popovic and Veinstein 2.2 Christianity: Sources of Authority and Right Doctrines 2.2.1 The Authority of the ekklesia (1): Arius and Arianism 2.2.2 The Authority of the ekklesia (2): Augustine, Manichaeism and the Flesh Rejected 2.3.1 Reading the Phenomena of Christianity 2.3.2 Reading the Signs of Christianity 2.3.3 Reading the Sacred in Christianity 2.4 Islam: Sources of Authority and Right Doctrines 2.4.1 The Authority of the Text (1): Ibn Hanbal and the Text Transcendent 2.4.2 The Authority of the Text (2): Al-Ghazali and the Isma'ili Imam 2.5.1 Reading the Phenomena of Islam 2.5.2 Reading the Signs of Islam 2.5.3 Reading the Sacred in Islam 2.6 Conclusion 3. The Flight to Tradition: A Paradigm of Return and Denial 3.1 Christian Tradition 3.2.1 Pre-Conciliar: Pascendi and Divino Afflante Spiritu 3.2.2 Post-Conciliar The Spirit and Practice of Marcel Lefebvre 3.3 Sunna: Definitions and Distinctions 3.4 Neo-Ijtihad and Return to the Salaf 3.5 Tradition, Purification, Kenosis and Return Bibliography.