Studiare la religione senza balaustre: un bilancio in chiaroscuro
In the essay, the author offers a review of the methodological problems facing any scientific study of religion by banking on twenty-five years spent investigating modern religious transformations and the faltering relationship between science and faith in the so-called "secular age". The...
| Subtitles: | Studying Religion Without Banisters$dA Mixed Record |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2023
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Annali di studi religiosi
Year: 2023, Volume: 24, Pages: 237-249 |
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| Summary: | In the essay, the author offers a review of the methodological problems facing any scientific study of religion by banking on twenty-five years spent investigating modern religious transformations and the faltering relationship between science and faith in the so-called "secular age". The starting point of his argument is the existentially salient character of "religion" and the implications that this has in terms of "respect". Is it sensible to claim that, since it still represents a crucial dimension in the personal identity of a substantia l number of people in today's world, religion deserves the same kind of respect that we reserve for "race" or "gender" these days? And, if this is the case, what are the methodological implications of such an acknowledgement? To answer these questions, three interlocking issues are discussed: (a) whether the story of the disenchantment of the world is not just what is needed to create the necessary distance to make the existential centrality of religion epistemologically harmless; (b) whether we do not already have a reliable method for achieving this goal; (c) whether the special nature of religion concerns less the dispute between fides et ratio than the problem of the boundaries of the space of reasons and the hard question of whether or not it makes sense to imagine an "external" limit to human thought. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14598/Annali_studi_relig_24202320 |