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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Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
Язык: | Английский |
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2012
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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. |
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ISSN: | 1749-8171 |
Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Religion compass
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2012.00358.x |