Some Second Thoughts About the Humanities
Willem Drees’ excellent What Are the Humanities For? triggered a series of second thoughts about the role of the humanities in modern society. These include several topics on which he and I agree but where we may be out of step with current trends, such as a dedication to “value-free” scholarship an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities$s2024-
2021
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Zygon
Year: 2021, Volume: 56, Issue: 3, Pages: 732-745 |
| Further subjects: | B
Critical Thinking
B Humanities B Academic Freedom B Religious Studies B Public health |
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| Summary: | Willem Drees’ excellent What Are the Humanities For? triggered a series of second thoughts about the role of the humanities in modern society. These include several topics on which he and I agree but where we may be out of step with current trends, such as a dedication to “value-free” scholarship and the continuing importance of the academic study of religion. It also provided an opportunity to question why religion has been excluded from policy debates involving the principal interface between science and religion in the twenty-first century: the creation of new medicines and their delivery to the billions of religious people around the world. Finally, I question the assumption that studying the humanities necessarily promotes critical thinking and argue that achieving that goal is more important now than ever before. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12730 |