Relational religion: manifesto for a synthesis in the study of religion
Religious traditions - although socially constructed - are distinguishable as distinct, practiced entities having pragmatic effects. Religion is not a purely scholarly invention. Correspondencies between empirical data and scientific concepts, or, between object language and metalanguage, have to be...
| Outros títulos: | Futures |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
| Verificar disponibilidade: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Publicado em: |
[2020]
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| Em: |
Religion
Ano: 2020, Volume: 50, Número: 1, Páginas: 97-105 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Religião
/ Relação
/ Ciências da religião
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AA Ciências da religião AD Sociologia da religião AG Vida religiosa |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
relational theory
B Religious Experience B Material Religion B religious action B semantics and social structure B religious cognition B structure and process |
| Acesso em linha: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Resumo: | Religious traditions - although socially constructed - are distinguishable as distinct, practiced entities having pragmatic effects. Religion is not a purely scholarly invention. Correspondencies between empirical data and scientific concepts, or, between object language and metalanguage, have to be found beyond essentialism and reification. Consequently, there is a shift in parts of the study of religion towards approaches that counteract essentialism and reification by explaining subject-matters through relationality. A relational paradigm is beyond the alternative of a naïve realism and positivism on the one hand or a radical constructivism or deconstructivism on the other hand. Against this background, the article draws attention to relations in the study of religion, especially between cognition, experience, action, and materiality, between semantics and social structure, and between structure and process. The article argues for a synthesis of different approaches in the study of religion, namely cognitive and material approaches, and experience- and action-orientated theories and methodologies. |
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| ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2019.1686847 |
