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Rationality & the Study of Religion (Hardcover)
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Rationality & the Study of Religion (Hardcover)
Series: Acta Jutlandica Series
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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 generalisations 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-objective disciplines. Yet how can rational
techniques be applied to beliefs and states of mind regarded by
some as beyond the scope of human reason? Can these be made
empirically testable, or comparable and replicable within academic
communities? Can science explicate religion without reducing it to
mere superstition, or redefine its truth in some empirical but
meaningful way?;Featuring contributions from leading international
experts including Donald Wiebe, Roger Trigg and Michael Pye,
"Rationality and the Study of Religion" gets under the surface of
the religious studies discipline to expose the ideologies beneath.
Reopening debate in a neglected yet philosophically significant
field, it questions the role of rationality in religious
anthropology, natural history and anti-scientific theologies, with
implications not only for supposedly objective disciplines but for
our deepest attitudes to personal experience. It is 'interesting
and important.
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