Rationality and the study of religion /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Jensen, Jeppe Sinding, 1951-, Martin, Luther H., 1937-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Subjects:
Religion > Methodology > Congresses.
Religion > Méthodologie > Congrès.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Reference.
Religion > Methodology
Religionswissenschaft
Godsdienstwetenschap.
Rationaliteit.
Conference papers and proceedings
Aufsatzsammlung.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Rationality and the study of religion : introduction
  • Anti anti-rationalism : anthropology and the rationality of human acts
  • Lévy-Bruhl, participation, and rationality
  • East Asian rationality in the exploration of religion
  • Religious models and problem solving : a cognitive perspective on the roles of rationality in comparative religion
  • Rationality, social science and religion
  • Social facts, metaphysics and rationality in the human sciences
  • Rationality and evidence : the study of religion as a taxonomy of human natural history
  • Rationalism and relativity in history of religions research
  • Rationality in studying historical religions
  • Dissolving rationality : the anti-science phenomenon and its implications for the study of religion.

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