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Why Study Religion? (Hardcover)
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Why Study Religion? (Hardcover)
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Can the study of religion be justified? Scholarship in religion,
especially work in "theory and method," is preoccupied with matters
of research procedure and thus inarticulate about the goals that
motivate scholarship in the field. For that reason, the field
suffers from a crisis of rationale. Richard B. Miller identifies
six prevailing methodologies in the field, and then offers an
alternative framework for thinking about the purposes of the
discipline. Shadowing these various methodologies, he notes, is a
Weberian scientific ideal for studying religion, one that aspires
to value-neutrality. This ideal fortifies a "regime of truth" that
undercuts efforts to think normatively and teleologically about the
field's purpose and value. Miller's alternative framework, Critical
Humanism, theorizes about the ends rather than the means of
humanistic scholarship. Why Study Religion? offers an account of
humanistic inquiry that is held together by four values:
Post-critical Reasoning, Social Criticism, Cross-cultural Fluency,
and Environmental Responsibility. Ordered to such purposes, Miller
argues, scholars of religion can relax their commitment to matters
of methodological procedure and advocate for the value of studying
religion. The future of religious studies will depend on how well
it can articulate its goals as a basis for motivating scholarship
in the field.
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