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1 online resource (174 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton legacy library.
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Contents. |
| Summary |
Ambitiously undertaking to develop a strategy for making the study of religion ""scientific, "" Ninian Smart tackles a set of interrelated issues that bear importantly on the status of religion as an academic discipline. He draws a clear distinction between studying religion and ""doing theology, "" and considers how phenomenological method may be used in investigating objects of religious attitudes without presupposing the existence of God or gods. He goes on to criticize projectionist theories of religion (notably Berger's) and theories of rationality in both religion and anthropology. On th. |
| Contents |
Preface; 1 The Science of Religion ; 2 Religion and Theology ; 3 Phenomenological Objects of Religion ; 4 Religion and Projection; 5 Religion and Rationality ; 6 Within and Without Religion ; 7 Compatibilities and Religious Materials ; 8 Further Reflections ; Bibliography. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Religion.
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Religion. |
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religion (discipline) |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Religious. |
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion. |
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RELIGION -- Essays. |
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RELIGION -- Reference. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Smart, Ninian. Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge: Some Methodological Questions. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2015 |
| ISBN |
9781400868889 (electronic book) |
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1400868882 (electronic book) |
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