Closing the Gaps—Some Notes on the Making of Perspectives
This special issue revolves around two main problems that need disentangling: the emic–etic debate and the insider–outsider problem. As the appointed discussant to the workshop in which this issue’s papers were first presented, I noted the emergence of some related and recurring problems on which I...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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| In: |
Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 28, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 465-477 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Science of Religion
/ Method
/ Normativity
/ Relativity
/ Discourse
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Methodology
normativity
e- and i-religion
type–token relations
relativism
discourse\s on religion
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| Summary: | This special issue revolves around two main problems that need disentangling: the emic–etic debate and the insider–outsider problem. As the appointed discussant to the workshop in which this issue’s papers were first presented, I noted the emergence of some related and recurring problems on which I further elaborate in this article. These problems can be summed up as differences in methods and theories in various disciplines that create “gaps” between their results. Moreover, there are problems concerning matters of scale, type–token relations, questions about the relations between the public and private character of religion, the seemingly inevitable ambiguities of relativism and, finally, the various modes of discourse on religion\s. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Contains: | In: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341365 |