| Description |
viii, 405 pages ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Controversies in the study of religion |
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Controversies in the study of religion.
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| Contents |
Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- Etic and emic standpoints for the description of behavior / Kenneth L. Pike -- Is understanding religion compatible with believing? / Alasdair MacIntyre -- "From the native's point of view": on the nature of anthropological understanding / Clifford Geertz -- The idea of the holy, chapters I-III / Rudolf Otto -- The meaning and task of the history of religions (Religionswissenschaft) / Joachim Wach -- A new humanism / Mircea Eliade -- Feminist anthropology and the gendering of religious studies / Rosalind Shaw -- An anthropological approach to the study of religion / Raymond Firth |
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Fessing up in theory: on professing and confessing in the religious studies classroom / Martin S. Jaffee -- The scholarly voice and the personal voice: reflexivity in belief studies / David J. Hufford -- The witch as a category and as a person / Michael Jackson -- The uses and misuses of other people's myths / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty -- Writing about "the other" / Karen McCarthy Brown -- Writing ethnography: the poetics and politics of culture / Margery Wolf -- The devil in Mr. Jones / Jonathan Z. Smith -- Religious studies and "Heaven's Gate": making the strange familiar and the familiar strange / Mark W. Muesse -- Theses on method / Bruce Lincoln |
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What is enlightenment? / Immanuel Kant -- In defense of reductionism / Robert A. Segal -- Religious discourse and first person authority / Terry F. Godlove, Jr. -- Reductionism and belief: an appraisal of recent attacks on the doctrine of irreducible religion / Daniel Pals -- Religion, explanation, and the Askesis of inquiry / Tony Edwards -- Within and without religion / Ninian Smart -- Neutrality in religious studies / Peter Donovan -- The study of religion: neutral, scientific, or neither? / Peter Byrne -- Does understanding religion require religious understanding? / Donald Wiebe |
| Notes |
A collection of previously published essays |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-402) and index |
| Subject |
Christian life.
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Religion -- Study and teaching.
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Religions -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
McCutcheon, Russell T., 1961-
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| LC no. |
98004479 |
| ISBN |
0304701777 (hardcover) |
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0304701785 (paperback) |
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