03423nam 22006974a 450 991045002940332120210615022755.01-282-75918-31-59734-453-20-520-92951-9978661275918510.1525/9780520929517(CKB)1000000000000446(EBL)223833(OCoLC)475929015(SSID)ssj0000099585(PQKBManifestationID)11108871(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099585(PQKBWorkID)10016456(PQKB)10067926(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084770(MiAaPQ)EBC223833(OCoLC)52996026(MdBmJHUP)muse30597(DE-B1597)520313(DE-B1597)9780520929517(Au-PeEL)EBL223833(CaPaEBR)ebr10048971(CaONFJC)MIL275918(EXLCZ)99100000000000044620021017d2003 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrAesthetics and analysis in writing on religion[electronic resource] modern fascinations /Daniel GoldBerkeley University of California Pressc20031 online resource (315 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-23613-0 0-520-23614-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-295) and index.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 --IndexThis 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.Religious literatureAuthorshipAestheticsReligious aspectsReligionMethodologyElectronic books.Religious literatureAuthorship.AestheticsReligious aspects.ReligionMethodology.200/.7/2Gold Daniel1048842MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450029403321Aesthetics and analysis in writing on religion2477398UNINA