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Rationality and the study of religion / edited by Jeppe Sinding Jensen & Luther H. Martin.

Contributor(s): Jensen, Jeppe Sinding, 1951- | Martin, Luther H, 1937-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003Copyright date: ©1997Description: viii, 221 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415281997 (pbk.)Subject(s): Religion -- Methodology -- CongressesDDC classification: 200/.7/2 LOC classification: BL41 | .R32 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Rationality and the study of religion: introduction / Jeppe Sinding Jensen -- Anti anti-rationalism: anthropology and the rationality of human acts / Michal Buchowski -- Lévy-Bruhl, participation, and rationality / Michael Pye -- Religious models and problem solving: a cognitive perspective on the roles of rationality in comparative religion / Matti Kamppinen -- Rationality, social science and religion / Roger Trigg -- Social facts, metaphysics and rationality in the human sciences / Jeppe Sinding Jensen -- Rationality and evidence: the study of religion as a taxonomy of human natural history / Gary Lease -- Rationalism and relativity in history of religions research / Luther H. Martin -- Rationality in studying historical religions / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Dissolving rationality: the anti-science phenomenon and its implications for the study of religion / Donald Wiebe.

Originally published: Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press, 1997, in series: Acta Jutlandica.

Contributions from a working conference held at University of Aarhus, Denmark, in connection with other meetings of the International Association for the History of Religions and a workshop for doctoral students from other Nordic countries.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Rationality and the study of religion: introduction / Jeppe Sinding Jensen -- Anti anti-rationalism: anthropology and the rationality of human acts / Michal Buchowski -- Lévy-Bruhl, participation, and rationality / Michael Pye -- Religious models and problem solving: a cognitive perspective on the roles of rationality in comparative religion / Matti Kamppinen -- Rationality, social science and religion / Roger Trigg -- Social facts, metaphysics and rationality in the human sciences / Jeppe Sinding Jensen -- Rationality and evidence: the study of religion as a taxonomy of human natural history / Gary Lease -- Rationalism and relativity in history of religions research / Luther H. Martin -- Rationality in studying historical religions / Hans G. Kippenberg -- Dissolving rationality: the anti-science phenomenon and its implications for the study of religion / Donald Wiebe.

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