Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index.
Introduction / Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Arvind Sharma -- Religious Studies—The Academic and Moral Challenge : Personal Reflections on the Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith / Diana L. Eck -- Wilfred Cantwell Smith : Academic Architect / John B. Carman -- The Meaningful “End” of God, Faith, and Scripture / Purushottama Bilimoria -- Anticipating the Emergence of "Contemplative Studies" : Reflections on the Work of Wilfred Cantwell Smith / Thomas B. Coburn -- Faith and Belief Revisited / Harvey Cox -- Wilfred Cantwell Smith and "Orientalism" / William A. Graham -- Enabling Antinomies : Tensions and Tensile Strength in Wilfred Cantwell Smith / John Stratton Hawley -- Who Cares If the Qur’an Is the Word of God? W. C. Smith’s Charge to the Aspiring Public Intellectual / Jonathan R. Herman -- Towards a Hermeneutic of Humanity : Wilfred Cantwell Smith and the Study of Muslims / Amir Hussain -- Wilfred Cantwell Smith in Lahore 1940–1951 / Sheila McDonough -- Diagnosis Rather than Dialogue as the Best Way to Study Religion / Robert A. Segal -- Wilfred Smith’s Prophetic Sense of History and Proposal Regarding Verification / Peter Slater -- Study of Religion as Study of Religious Persons / K. R. Sundararajan -- The Moral Imagination of Wilfred Cantwell Smith / Donald K. Swearer