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Beyond Phenomenology - Rethinking the Study of Religion (Paperback)
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Beyond Phenomenology - Rethinking the Study of Religion (Paperback)
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This book argues that the understanding and explanation of religion
is always historically contingent. Grounded in the work of Bakhtin
and Ricoeur, Flood positions the academic study of religion within
contemporary debates in the social sciences and humanities
concerning modernity and postmodernity, particularly contested
issues regarding truth and knowledge. It challenges the view that
religions are privileged, epistemic objects, argues for the
importance of metatheory, and presents an argument for the
dialogical nature of inquiry. The study of religion should begin
with language and culture, and this shift in emphasis to the
philosophy of the sign in hermeneutics and away from the philosophy
of consciousness in phenomenology has far-reaching implications. It
means a new ethic of practice which is sensitive to the power
relationship in any epistemology; it opens the door to feminist and
postcolonial critique, and it provides a methodology which allows
for the interface between religious studies, theology, and the
social sciences.
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