How to do Comparative Religion?: Three Ways, Many Goals

Published by De Gruyter 2005

How to do Comparative Religion?

Three Ways, Many Goals

Edited by: René Gothóni

Volume 44 in the series Religion and Reason

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110922608

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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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Understanding Religion
Introduction René Gothóni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Major Contributions of Philosophical Phenomenology and Hermeneutics to the Study of Religion Douglas Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Phenonomenology of Religion: Between ‘Given’ and Constructed Teuvo Laitila Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
“Going, going, gone” – Or How I Fail to Gain Hermeneutic Understanding Tom Sjöblom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Phenomenology as a Preliminary Method Terhi Utriainen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Response Douglas Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Explaining Religion
Introduction Ilkka Pyysiäinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Beyond Thick Descriptions and Interpretive Sciences: Explaining Religious Meaning Donald Wiebe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
The Limits of Explaining in Religious Studies Nils G. Holm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Science/Religion Controversy – Are the Grounds of Naturalism Still Valid for Their Confrontation? Veikko Anttonen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Understanding the Other René Gothóni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Response Donald Wiebe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Critical Approaches in the Comparative Study of Religion
Introduction Tuula Sakaranaho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Methodology – Tool or Trap? Comments from a Feminist Perspective Rita M. Gross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Research and Sexual Difference Elisa Heinämäki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
When is Methodology a Trap? Kimmo Ketola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Skyhooks and Toeholds in the Study of Religion Teemu Taira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Response Rita Μ. Gross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Summary
Religion and Relations. The Social Dimension of Methodological Argumentation Kari Mikko Vesala and Heikki Pesonen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Index of Subject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 221
Keywords: Comparative religious studies

eBook

Published: February 14, 2012
ISBN: 9783110922608

Hardcover

Published: October 17, 2005
ISBN: 9783110185720