Joseph Walser
Biographic Data
| ID | 5177197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Walser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Walser |
| SIGNATURE | WALSER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University New Orleans |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When Did Buddhism Become Anti-Brahmanical? The Case of the Missing Soul
Many textbooks for Introduction to Buddhism or World Religions courses treat Buddhism as a competitor of either “Hinduism” or “Brahmanism” by asserting that Buddhism teaches that there is no eternal self or soul and Hinduism teaches that there is. I ask whether these assumptions hold up for one of the earliest sources about Buddhism, the Pali canon. Using statistical analysis of 5,126 suttas or “discourses,” I argue that there is little evidence …
The classification of religions and religious classifications
Scholars have long worried over the fact that the categories of religion that they bring to their scholarship imperfectly match folk classifications of the ‘same’ religion. The more precisely we attempt to define a religion, the more our target seems to elude our grasp. Here, I argue that by looking at religions through the lens of genre theory, we can make more sense of both the range of classifications as well as the apparent uniformity assumed…
On the Formal Arguments of the Akutobhayā
On the Formal Arguments of the Akutobhayā
The classification of religions and religious classifications
Scholars have long worried over the fact that the categories of religion that they bring to their scholarship imperfectly match folk classifications of the ‘same’ religion. The more precisely we attempt to define a religion, the more our target seems to elude our grasp. Here, I argue that by looking at religions through the lens of genre theory, we can make more sense of both the range of classifications as well as the apparent uniformity assumed…
When Did Buddhism Become Anti-Brahmanical? The Case of the Missing Soul
Many textbooks for Introduction to Buddhism or World Religions courses treat Buddhism as a competitor of either “Hinduism” or “Brahmanism” by asserting that Buddhism teaches that there is no eternal self or soul and Hinduism teaches that there is. I ask whether these assumptions hold up for one of the earliest sources about Buddhism, the Pali canon. Using statistical analysis of 5,126 suttas or “discourses,” I argue that there is little evidence …
Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Study and Philosophy of Religion (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 works) · Art (1 works)