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How to do Comparative Religion?
Three Ways, Many Goals
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Edited by:
René Gothóni
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English
Published/Copyright:
2005
About this book
Well-known scholars in the study of religions bring up to date and elucidate the discussion on the three most debated approaches in comparative religion, namely, the hermeneutical approach, the explanatory or cognitivist approach, and the critical approach. The approaches and methods of studying religion are disputed in an outspoken and challenging way, critically and radically arguing pros and cons. This work is unique, unrivalled, and full of essential insights into the dialogue of today and of the challenges of tomorrow.
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René Gothóni, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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Preface
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Contents
ix - Understanding Religion
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Introduction
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Major Contributions of Philosophical Phenomenology and Hermeneutics to the Study of Religion
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Phenonomenology of Religion: Between ‘Given’ and Constructed
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“Going, going, gone” – Or How I Fail to Gain Hermeneutic Understanding
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Phenomenology as a Preliminary Method
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Response
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Beyond Thick Descriptions and Interpretive Sciences: Explaining Religious Meaning
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The Limits of Explaining in Religious Studies
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Science/Religion Controversy – Are the Grounds of Naturalism Still Valid for Their Confrontation?
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Understanding the Other
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Response
127 - Critical Approaches in the Comparative Study of Religion
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Methodology – Tool or Trap? Comments from a Feminist Perspective
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Research and Sexual Difference
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When is Methodology a Trap?
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Skyhooks and Toeholds in the Study of Religion
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Response
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Religion and Relations. The Social Dimension of Methodological Argumentation
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Index of Authors
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Index of Subject
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eBook published on:
February 14, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9783110922608
Hardcover published on:
October 17, 2005
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110185720
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10
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221
Keywords for this book
Comparative religious studies
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Scholars, Institutes, Libraries
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