The Question of Methodological Naturalism.

The traditions and institutions that we call religions abound with references to the supernatural: ancestral spirits, karma, the afterlife, miracles, revelation, deities, et cetera How are students of religion to approach the behaviors, doctrines, and beliefs that refer to such phenomena, which by t...

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Main Author: Jason N. Blum (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.

Series: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 11.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350.

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505 0 0 |t Preliminary Material /  |r Jason N. Blum --   |t The Question of Methodological Naturalism /  |r Jason N. Blum --   |t Naturalism as Method and Metaphysic: A Comparative Historical Taxonomy /  |r Daniel L. Pals --   |t Incapacitating Scholarship: Or, Why Methodological Agnosticism Is Impossible /  |r Craig Martin --   |t Orthodoxy Is Not Scientific: A Phenomenological Critique of Naturalism /  |r Jonathan Tuckett --   |t Naturalisms, Ineffability Claims, and Symbolic Meanings /  |r Nancy Frankenberry --   |t Natural Ineffability and the Scandal of Language /  |r Jason N. Blum --   |t In Defense of a Naturalistic Approach to Religion /  |r Robert A. Segal --   |t Who's Afraid of Reductionism? Methodological Naturalism and the Academic Study of Religion /  |r Edward Slingerland --   |t What Can the Failure of Cog-Sci of Religion Teach Us about the Future of Religious Studies? /  |r Ivan Strenski --   |t Must a Scholar of Religion Be Methodologically Atheistic or Agnostic? /  |r Michael A. Cantrell --   |t A Better Methodological Naturalism /  |r Kevin Schilbrack --   |t Index /  |r Jason N. Blum. 
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