Comparative religion is a field of religious study that analyzes interpretive differences of common themes and ideas among the world's religions. This field of study relies upon the examination of myth, deriving essential themes from religious metaphor, and tracing in various ways a possible direct cultural connection between them.
... Kalawao County, Hawaii), he contracted the disease, from which he died at the colony.
He is the patron of lepers and outcasts, and was recently made the patron of AIDS ...