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More Than Belief - A Materialist Theory of Religion (Hardcover)
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More Than Belief - A Materialist Theory of Religion (Hardcover)
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Over the past several decades, postmodernist and postcolonial
challenges to traditional theories and methods have revolutionized
the social sciences. The discipline of religious studies, however,
has been relatively slow to confront these developments, continuing
to rely heavily on textual methods and a framework that privileges
belief over practice, doctrine over performance, text over context,
and inner emotion over public ritual. Recently, however,
developments in social theory have begun to transform the study of
religion. In this book, Manuel Vasquez maps out the dynamics of
this paradigm shift, exploring systematically the epistemological
and methodological challenges contemporary social theory poses for
traditional approaches to religious studies. Offering a panoramic
view of key debates on identity, culture, and society across the
social sciences, he assesses the impact of these debates on the
study of religion, offering specific examples of how they are
shaping the study of particular religious traditions. He concludes
by proposing a robust yet flexible materialist approach to the
study of religion that will be capable of addressing the increasing
complexity of religious life.
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