Buch, Englisch, 552 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 680 g
Reihe: AAR Religions in Translation
Studies in Twentieth-Century Theory and Method in Religion
Buch, Englisch, 552 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 680 g
Reihe: AAR Religions in Translation
ISBN: 978-0-7885-0540-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
Why do many people think religion is subjective? Or symbolic? Or non-rational? This book brings together eighteen important twentieth-century essaus on these questions, by authors ranging from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Richard Rorty and Clifford Geertz. The editors show that such questions are both quite modern and powerfully influential in our Western thinking about religious belief. Moreover, they lead directly into the three most popular theories that attempt to make sense of
religion: positivism, functionalism, and relativism. Selecting essays that represent each of these three theoretical positions, Frankenberry and Penner trace their incoherence and argue for a new method and theory for understanding religious beliefs.
