1st Edition
Rationality and the Study of Religion
224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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Does rationality, the intellectual bedrock of all science, apply to the study of religion? Religion, arguably the most subjective area of human behaviour, has particular challenges associated with its study. Attracting crowd-healers, conjurers, the pious and the prophetic alongside comparativists and sceptics, it excites opinions and generalizations whilst seldom explicitly staking out the... Read more
Chapter 1 Rationality and the Study of Religion, Jeppe Sinding Jensen; Chapter 2 Anti Anti-Rationalism, Michal Buchowski; Chapter 3 Lévy-Bruhl, Part icipation, and Rationality, Benson Saler; Chapter 4 East Asian Rationality in the Exploration of Religion, Michael Pye; Chapter 5 Religious Models and Problem Solving, Matti Kamppinen; Chapter 6 Rationality, Social Science and Religion, Roger Trigg; Chapter 7 Social Facts, Metaphysics and Rationality in the Study of Religion as a Human Science, Jeppe Sinding Jensen; Chapter 8 Rationaltity and Evidence, Gary Lease; Chapter 9 Rationalism and Relativity in History of Religions Research, Luther H. Martin; Chapter 10 Rationality in Studying Historical Religions, Hans G. Kippenberg; Chapter 11 Dissolving Rationality, Donald Wiebe;
Biography
Jeppe Sinding Jensen is Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Aarhus, and is co-editor of Religion, Tradition and Renewal (Aarhus, 1991). Luther H. Martin holds a professorship in religion at the University of Vermont, and is the author of Hellenistic Religions (1987) and editor of Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault (1988). He has published widely on theory and method in the study of religion including the cognitive science of religion, and recently co-edited The Academic Study Of Religion During The Cold War: East And West (2001).
