| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 207 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Eroticism, violence, and sacrifice -- Excess, time, and the pure gift -- Genealogy, power, and discourse -- Hermeneutics, comparison, and difference -- The problematic nature of representational thinking -- Responding to the postmodern challenge |
| Summary |
The use of postmodern thought to approach the study of religion threatens to call into question the values and representational mode of thinking typical of the field. Religious studies with a radical scepticism grounded in an embrace of decadence by postmodern thinkers has the potential to undermine, subvert, and distort the study of religion, making it difficult to understand the subject if such an approach is uncritically adopted by scholars seeking new ways to study it |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on Jan. 7, 2013) |
| Subject |
Religion -- Methodology
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Religion -- Study and teaching.
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Postmodernism.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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RELIGION -- Essays.
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RELIGION -- Reference.
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Postmodernism
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Religion -- Methodology
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Religion -- Study and teaching
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Religion.
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Philosophy & Religion.
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Religion - General.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199315970 |
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0199315973 |
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9780199959846 |
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0199959846 |
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