A Modest Proposal on Method

Essaying the Study of Religion

von Russell T Mccutcheon

238 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A Modest Proposal on Method further documents methodological and institutional failings in the academic study of religion. This collection of essays--which includes three previously unpublished chapters--identifies the manner in which old problems (like the presumption that our object of study is a special, deeply meaningful case) yet remain in the field. But amidst the critique there are a variety of practical suggestions for how the science of religion can become methodologically even-handed and self-reflexive--the markings of a historically rigorous exercise. Each chapter is introduced and contextualized by a newly written, substantive introduction.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Christentum
• ISBN: 9789004281233
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2014
• Größe: 244 x 165 mm
• Verlag: Brill