Clifford Geertz’s Interpretive Approach to Religion

Clifford Geertz is often lauded as the key social scientist in the contemporary shift from an interpretive approach to religion and to culture in general to an explanatory approach. Supposedly, the shift is from concern with the cause of religion to concern with the meaning of religion. This article...

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Главный автор: Segal, Robert A. (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: 2012
В: Religion compass
Год: 2012, Том: 6, Выпуск: 12, Страницы: 511-524
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Итог:Clifford Geertz is often lauded as the key social scientist in the contemporary shift from an interpretive approach to religion and to culture in general to an explanatory approach. Supposedly, the shift is from concern with the cause of religion to concern with the meaning of religion. This article argues, first, that Geertz associates an interpretive approach with an array of distinct considerations and argues, second, that Geertz actually seeks to combine an interpretive approach with an explanatory one rather than to substitute an interpretive approach for an explanatory one.
ISSN:1749-8171
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Religion compass
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2012.00358.x