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Rationality and the study of religion /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 territory for the discussions in which it partakes. Increasingly, scholars argue that religious study needs to define and critique its own field, and to distinguish itself from theology and other non-objectiv. |
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| Notas: | Originally published: Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press, 1997, in series: Acta Jutlandiapproximately. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 221 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-202) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781136480249 1136480242 1299866077 9781299866072 1136480315 9781136480317 1138165794 9781138165793 1315015498 9781315015491 |