The Question of Methodological Naturalism.
Jason N. Blum (Editor)
The Question of Methodological Naturalism. - 1 online resource. - Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 11. Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350. .
Preliminary Material / The Question of Methodological Naturalism / Naturalism as Method and Metaphysic: A Comparative Historical Taxonomy / Incapacitating Scholarship: Or, Why Methodological Agnosticism Is Impossible / Orthodoxy Is Not Scientific: A Phenomenological Critique of Naturalism / Naturalisms, Ineffability Claims, and Symbolic Meanings / Natural Ineffability and the Scandal of Language / In Defense of a Naturalistic Approach to Religion / Who’s Afraid of Reductionism? Methodological Naturalism and the Academic Study of Religion / What Can the Failure of Cog-Sci of Religion Teach Us about the Future of Religious Studies? / Must a Scholar of Religion Be Methodologically Atheistic or Agnostic? / A Better Methodological Naturalism / Index / Jason N. Blum -- Jason N. Blum -- Daniel L. Pals -- Craig Martin -- Jonathan Tuckett -- Nancy Frankenberry -- Jason N. Blum -- Robert A. Segal -- Edward Slingerland -- Ivan Strenski -- Michael A. Cantrell -- Kevin Schilbrack -- Jason N. Blum.
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 their very nature are supposed to defy the methods of empirical research and the theories of historical scholarship? That is the question of methodological naturalism. The Question of Methodological Naturalism offers ten thoughtful engagements with that perennial question for the academic study of religion. Contributors include established senior scholars and newer voices propounding a range of perspectives, resulting in both surprising points of convergence and irreconcilable differences in how our shared discipline should be conceptualized and practiced.
9789004372436
10.1163/9789004372436 DOI
Religion--Methodology.
Religion--Study and teaching.
Naturalism.
BL41 / .Q47 2018
200.72
The Question of Methodological Naturalism. - 1 online resource. - Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 11. Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350. .
Preliminary Material / The Question of Methodological Naturalism / Naturalism as Method and Metaphysic: A Comparative Historical Taxonomy / Incapacitating Scholarship: Or, Why Methodological Agnosticism Is Impossible / Orthodoxy Is Not Scientific: A Phenomenological Critique of Naturalism / Naturalisms, Ineffability Claims, and Symbolic Meanings / Natural Ineffability and the Scandal of Language / In Defense of a Naturalistic Approach to Religion / Who’s Afraid of Reductionism? Methodological Naturalism and the Academic Study of Religion / What Can the Failure of Cog-Sci of Religion Teach Us about the Future of Religious Studies? / Must a Scholar of Religion Be Methodologically Atheistic or Agnostic? / A Better Methodological Naturalism / Index / Jason N. Blum -- Jason N. Blum -- Daniel L. Pals -- Craig Martin -- Jonathan Tuckett -- Nancy Frankenberry -- Jason N. Blum -- Robert A. Segal -- Edward Slingerland -- Ivan Strenski -- Michael A. Cantrell -- Kevin Schilbrack -- Jason N. Blum.
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 their very nature are supposed to defy the methods of empirical research and the theories of historical scholarship? That is the question of methodological naturalism. The Question of Methodological Naturalism offers ten thoughtful engagements with that perennial question for the academic study of religion. Contributors include established senior scholars and newer voices propounding a range of perspectives, resulting in both surprising points of convergence and irreconcilable differences in how our shared discipline should be conceptualized and practiced.
9789004372436
10.1163/9789004372436 DOI
Religion--Methodology.
Religion--Study and teaching.
Naturalism.
BL41 / .Q47 2018
200.72