Method in the History of Religions

“The notion that the historian of religions should seek disinterested, impersonal, descriptive knowledge about religious ‘matters of fact’ understood as existing independently of concrete persons should be outrightly rejected as an inadequate metaphor. … No methodology is developed prior to the proc...

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Main Author: Ingram, Paul O. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 1976
In: Theology today
Year: 1976, Volume: 32, Issue: 4, Pages: 382-394
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Summary:“The notion that the historian of religions should seek disinterested, impersonal, descriptive knowledge about religious ‘matters of fact’ understood as existing independently of concrete persons should be outrightly rejected as an inadequate metaphor. … No methodology is developed prior to the process of understanding and discovery … for method is essentially a way of interpreting the implications of insights which have their roots in the tacit forms of inarticulate knowledge.”
ISSN:2044-2556
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology today
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/004057367603200406