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The Scientification of Religion - A Historical Study of Discursive Change, 1800-2000 (Paperback)
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The Scientification of Religion - A Historical Study of Discursive Change, 1800-2000 (Paperback)
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The enigmatic relation between religion and science still presents
a challenge to European societies and to ideas about what it means
to be 'modern.' This book argues that European secularism, rather
than pushing back religious truth claims, in fact has been
religiously productive itself. The institutional establishment of
new disciplines in the nineteenth century, such as religious
studies, anthropology, psychology, classical studies, and the study
of various religious traditions, led to a professionalization of
knowledge about religion that in turn attributed new meanings to
religion. This attribution of meaning resulted in the emergence of
new religious identities and practices. In a dynamic that is
closely linked to this discursive change, the natural sciences
adopted religious and metaphysical claims and integrated them in
their framework of meaning, resulting in a special form of
scientific religiosity that has gained much influence in the
twentieth century. Applying methods that come from historical
discourse analysis, the book demonstrates that religious semantics
have been reconfigured in the secular sciences. Ultimately, the
scientification of religion perpetuated religious truth claims
under conditions of secularism.
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