Religion and the Discourse on Modernity.

By: Tremlett, Paul-Franc¸oisMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Continuum Advances in Religious StudiesPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (170 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781441157980Subject(s): Critical theory | Phenomenology | Reductionism | Religion -- MethodologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion and the Discourse on ModernityDDC classification: 210.1 LOC classification: BL41.T74 2008Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Re-Thinking Reductionism -- 2 Post-Modernism and the Study of Religions -- 3 Critical Theory -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: The point of departure for this book is the debate about whether religious studies should privilege explanation or understanding. Engaging with contemporary scholarship in the field, Tremlett argues that the study of religions has always involved the conflation of facts and values and indeed has been structured in advance by the value-saturated discourse on disenchanted modernity. He argues that phenomenological and post-modern approaches to religions lack both theoretical and methodological coherence, and in their stead proposes a Marxist approach to religions that is at once empirical and informed by values pertaining to social justice, freedom and autonomy.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Re-Thinking Reductionism -- 2 Post-Modernism and the Study of Religions -- 3 Critical Theory -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

The point of departure for this book is the debate about whether religious studies should privilege explanation or understanding. Engaging with contemporary scholarship in the field, Tremlett argues that the study of religions has always involved the conflation of facts and values and indeed has been structured in advance by the value-saturated discourse on disenchanted modernity. He argues that phenomenological and post-modern approaches to religions lack both theoretical and methodological coherence, and in their stead proposes a Marxist approach to religions that is at once empirical and informed by values pertaining to social justice, freedom and autonomy.

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