The science of religion: a defence: essays by Donald Wiebe
Intro -- Contents -- Citations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Religion, Religious Studies, and Science -- Chapter 1. Explanation and the Scientific Study of Religion -- Chapter 2. Is a Science of Religion Possible? -- Chapter 3. Theory in the Study of Religion -- Chapter 4. Beyond the Skeptic and the De...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Supplements to method and theory in the study of religion
12 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Science
/ Methodology
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Print version: Wiebe, Donald: The Science of Religion: a Defence. - Boston : BRILL,c2018. - 9789004381803 |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Citations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Religion, Religious Studies, and Science -- Chapter 1. Explanation and the Scientific Study of Religion -- Chapter 2. Is a Science of Religion Possible? -- Chapter 3. Theory in the Study of Religion -- Chapter 4. Beyond the Skeptic and the Devotee: Reductionism in the Scientific Study of Religion -- Chapter 5. Postscript: on Method, Metaphysics, and Reductionism -- Part 2: Conceptual Debates in the Academic Study of Religion -- Chapter 6. The Role of Belief in the Study of Religion: a Response to Wilfred Cantwell Smith -- Chapter 7. Disciplinary Axioms, Boundary Conditions, and the Academic Study of Religion: Comments on Pals and Dawson -- Chapter 8. On the Transformation of `Belief' and the Domestication of `Faith' in the Academic Study of Religion -- Chapter 9. `Understanding' in Religious Studies: a Gnostic Aberration in the Modern Study of Religion? -- Chapter 10. Beyond Thick Descriptions and Interpretive Sciences: Explaining Religious Meaning -- Part 3: In Defence of a Science of Religion -- Chapter 11. `Why the Academic Study of Religion?': Motive and Method in the Study of Religion -- Chapter 12. `Taking Religion Seriously': Eric Sharpe's Comparative Religion - History as Apology -- Chapter 13. On Theological Resistance to the Scientific Study of Religion: Values and the Value-Free Study of Religion -- Chapter 14. Dissolving Rationality: the Anti-Science Phenomenon and Its Implications for the Study of Religion -- Chapter 15. Transcending Religious Language: towards the Recovery of an Academic Agenda -- Conclusion. An Encroaching Spirituality: What Hope Remains for a Science of Religion? -- Critique. The Preconceptions of a `Science of Religion' -- Reply. Preconceptions about a Science of Religion? My Response to Anthony Palma -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 9004385061 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004385061 |