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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777378503321

Autore

Gold Daniel

Titolo

Aesthetics and analysis in writing on religion [[electronic resource] ] : modern fascinations / / Daniel Gold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-75918-3

1-59734-453-2

0-520-92951-9

9786612759185

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Disciplina

200/.7/2

Soggetti

Religious literature - Authorship

Aesthetics - Religious aspects

Religion - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-295) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modern Dilemmas in Writing on Religion -- 1. Fascinated Scientists and Empathizing Theologians -- 2. Finding Middle Grounds -- 3. A Creative Process -- 4. Other Scholars' UFOs -- 5. The Religio-historical Sublime -- 6. Relating Stories about Religious Traditions -- 7. Aesthetic Objects and Objective Knowledge -- 8. Interpreting Anew and Alone: Vision and Succession in Dutch Phenomenology -- 9. Explaining Together: The Excitement of Diffusionist Ideas -- 10. Interpreting Together: The Cambridge Ritualists' Affair of the Intellect -- 11. Concepts of Collectivity and the Fabric of Religio-historical Knowledge -- Afterword: The Future of Modern Dilemmas -- Notes -- Frequently Cited Sources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field. He shows that successful writers on religion employ characteristic aesthetic strategies in communicating their visions of



human truths. Gold examines these strategies with regard to epistemology and to the study of religion as a collective endeavor.