A new comparativism: Reply to the panelists

Abstract

I am grateful for these thoughtful replies and the questions they pose Readers will immediately see how different are the theoretical frames of the panelists and how this variety of concerns reveals the pluralistic and even territorial character of contemporary theoretical inquiry Hewitt presses political issues about how one handles otherness, Wiebe seeks to locate comparativism in relation to the history of Religionswissenschaft, and Lawson requires expli cation of the theoretical status and relevance of comparative patterns from the point of view of cognitive psychology