Studying Religion and Trying Theological Applications
John Shook’s paper Are People Born to be Believers? raises many questions, for the scientific study of religion and for philosophy and theology. For reasons of convenience this response distinguishes in the target article between three quite different issues and deals with them separately: first iss...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2017
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Ano: 2017, Volume: 29, Número: 4/5, Páginas: 400-410 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Religião
/ Ideias inatas
/ Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
/ Teologia
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AA Ciências da religião AE Psicologia da religião FA Teologia |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
innatness
cognitive science of religion
epistemology
science and theology
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Volltext (Publisher) |
| Resumo: | John Shook’s paper Are People Born to be Believers? raises many questions, for the scientific study of religion and for philosophy and theology. For reasons of convenience this response distinguishes in the target article between three quite different issues and deals with them separately: first issue concerns the supposed innateness of religious beliefs, or some precursor of them; second, the possible theological application that such thesis could entail; and third, a more general and methodological issue, concerns the feasibility of a scientific knowledge about religion that can be disentangled from other sources of religious insight |
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| Descrição Física: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Reference: | Kommentar zu "Are People Born to be Believers, or are Gods Born to be Believed? (2017)"
Kommentar in "Reply to Commentaries on “Are People Born to be Believers, or are Gods Born to be Believed?” (2017)" |
| Obras secundárias: | In: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341401 |