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The question of methodological naturalism /

"The traditions and institutions that we call religions abound with references to the supernatural: ancestral spirits, karma, the afterlife, miracles, revelation, deities, etc. How are students of religion to approach the behaviors, doctrines, and beliefs that refer to such phenomena, which by...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blum, Jason N., 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Colección:Supplements to method & theory in the study of religion, volume 11
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The question of methodological naturalism / Jason N. Blum
  • Naturalism as method and metaphysic: a comparative historical taxonomy / Daniel L. Pals
  • Incapacitating scholarship: or, why methodological agnosticism is impossible / Craig Martin
  • Orthodoxy is not scientific: a phenomenological critique of naturalism / Jonathan Tuckett
  • Naturalisms, ineffability claims, and symbolic meanings / Nancy Frankenberry
  • Natural ineffability and the scandal of language / Jason N. Blum
  • In defense of a naturalistic approach to religion / Robert A. Segal
  • Who's afraid of reductionism? methodological naturalism and the academic study of religion / Edward Slingerland
  • What can the failure of cog-sci of religion teach us about the future of religious studies? / Ivan Strenski
  • Must a scholar of religion be methodologically atheistic or agnostic? / Michael A. Cantrell
  • A better methodological naturalism / Kevin Schilbrack.