Beyond Phenomenology
Rethinking the Study of Religion
This book argues that the understanding and explanation of religion is always historically contingent. Grounded in the work of Bakhtin and Ricoeur, Flood positions the academic study of religion within contemporary debates in the social sciences and humanities concerning modernity and postmodernity, particularly contested issues regarding truth and knowledge. It challenges the view that religions are privileged, epistemic objects, argues for the importance of metatheory, and presents an argument for the dialogical nature of inquiry. The study of religion should begin with language and culture, and this shift in emphasis to the philosophy of t…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4411-7822-0
- EAN: 9781441178220
- Produktnummer: 17020983
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 18'259 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Gavin Flood is Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and the author of An Introduction to Hinduism (CUP 2004).
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