The Scholarship of 'Cults' and the 'Cult' of Scholarship
The following pages will undertake a critique of the academic enterprise as it manifests in the study of new religious movements, although itis also, by implication, simultaneously a critique of secular scholarship more generally. My objections to new religion scholarship can be condensed to the obs...
| Published in: | Journal of Dharma |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dharmaram College
1987
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Journal of Dharma
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| Summary: | The following pages will undertake a critique of the academic enterprise as it manifests in the study of new religious movements, although itis also, by implication, simultaneously a critique of secular scholarship more generally. My objections to new religion scholarship can be condensed to the observation that most of the literature in the field-whatever its other merits-frequently has the effect of increasing the sense of thealienness and the otherness of alternative religious groups (thus inadvertently reinforcing rather than undermining popular "cult" stereotypes). Conversely, I want to make the case for a humanistic style of scholarship which, at least as a preliminary move, attempts to give one access to thelifeworld and to the deeper intentionality of the new religions. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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