First delivered in 1974 as one of the Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, this book considers and compares traditional or pre-modern and post-traditional or post-modern religions. It assesses the processes as well as the images of change in various cultures - principally Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism - and examines how these religions handle the dialects of rejection, appropriation and integration.

R. J. Zwi Werblowsky was Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

1. Secularization and Secularism: Cultural Process and Ideological Critique
2. Virtue or Necessity: The Christian Encounter with Secularity
3. Sacral Particularity: The Jewish Case (With a Digression on Japan)
4. Progress and Stagnation: The Dilemmas of Islam
5. Affirmative through Renunciation: Dharma, Moksha and Nirvana
6. Is the Snark a Boojum? Or Post-Traditional Religion: Opium, Sugar-Coating and Vitamin
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