The question of methodological naturalism
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The question of methodological naturalism
(Supplements to Method & theory in the study of religion, vol. 11)
Brill, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The traditions and institutions that we call religions abound with references to the supernatural: ancestral spirits, karma, the afterlife, miracles, revelation, deities, etc. How are students of religion to approach the behaviors, doctrines, and beliefs that refer to such phenomena, which by their very nature are supposed to defy the methods of empirical research and the theories of historical scholarship? That is the question of methodological naturalism. The Question of Methodological Naturalism offers ten thoughtful engagements with that perennial question for the academic study of religion. Contributors include established senior scholars and newer voices propounding a range of perspectives, resulting in both surprising points of convergence and irreconcilable differences in how our shared discipline should be conceptualized and practiced.
Table of Contents
- Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors The Question of Methodological Naturalism emsp
- Jason N. Blum Naturalism as Method and Metaphysic: A Comparative Historical Taxonomy emsp
- Daniel L. Pals Incapacitating Scholarship: Or, Why Methodological Agnosticism Is Impossible emsp
- Craig Martin Orthodoxy Is Not Scientific: a Phenomenological Critique of Naturalism emsp
- Jonathan Tuckett Naturalisms, Ineffability Claims, and Symbolic Meanings emsp
- Nancy Frankenberry Natural Ineffability and the Scandal of Language emsp
- Jason N. Blum In Defense of a Naturalistic Approach to Religion emsp
- Robert A. Segal Who's Afraid of Reductionism? Methodological Naturalism and the Academic Study of Religion emsp
- Edward Slingerland What Can the Failure of Cog-Sci of Religion Teach Us about the Future of Religious Studies? emsp
- Ivan Strenski Must a Scholar of Religion Be Methodologically Atheistic or Agnostic? emsp
- Michael A. Cantrell A Better Methodological Naturalism emsp
- Kevin Schilbrack Index
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