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)

Format: eBook

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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Call Number: BL41 .Q47 2018

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