The science of religion : : a defence : essays by Donald Wiebe / / edited, introduced, and critiqued by Anthony J. Palma.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 pages). |
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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.