The science of religion : a defence : essays by Donald Wiebe /

The science of religion : a defence : essays by Donald Wiebe /

Donald Wiebe, Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Trinity College, University of Toronto, has spent much of his academic career arguing for a clear demarcation between Theology and Religious Studies. The Science of Religion: A Defence offers a brilliant overview of Professor Wiebe's contribu...

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Main Author: Wiebe, Donald, 1943- (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 12.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350.

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Religion > Methodology.

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Call Number: BL41

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Anthony J. Palma
  • Introduction /
  • Anthony J. Palma
  • Explanation and the Scientific Study of Religion
  • Is a Science of Religion Possible?
  • Theory in the Study of Religion
  • Beyond the Skeptic and the Devotee: Reductionism in the Scientific Study of Religion
  • Postscript: on Method, Metaphysics, and Reductionism
  • The Role of Belief in the Study of Religion: a Response to Wilfred Cantwell Smith
  • Disciplinary Axioms, Boundary Conditions, and the Academic Study of Religion: Comments on Pals and Dawson
  • On the Transformation of 'Belief' and the Domestication of 'Faith' in the Academic Study of Religion
  • 'Understanding' in Religious Studies: a Gnostic Aberration in the Modern Study of Religion?
  • Beyond Thick Descriptions and Interpretive Sciences: Explaining Religious Meaning
  • 'Why the Academic Study of Religion?': Motive and Method in the Study of Religion
  • 'Taking Religion Seriously': Eric Sharpe's Comparative Religion - History as Apology
  • On Theological Resistance to the Scientific Study of Religion: Values and the Value-Free Study of Religion
  • Dissolving Rationality: the Anti-Science Phenomenon and Its Implications for the Study of Religion
  • Transcending Religious Language: towards the Recovery of an Academic Agenda
  • An Encroaching Spirituality: What Hope Remains for a Science of Religion?
  • The Preconceptions of a 'Science of Religion' /
  • Anthony J. Palma
  • Preconceptions about a Science of Religion? My Response to Anthony Palma
  • Index /
  • Anthony J. Palma.