02446oam 2200565zu 450 991081494460332120210731015146.0(CKB)3460000000128163(SSID)ssj0000820865(PQKBManifestationID)11524074(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820865(PQKBWorkID)10881789(PQKB)10384415(StDuBDS)EDZ0000115784(MiAaPQ)EBC5745565(EXLCZ)99346000000012816320160829d2013 uy engur|||||||||||txtccrThe allure of decadent thinking : religious studies and the challenge of postmodernismNew York Oxford University Press20131 online resourceBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-995983-8 0-19-931597-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Eroticism, violence, and sacrifice -- Excess, time, and the pure gift -- Genealogy, power, and discourse -- Hermeneutics, comparison, and difference -- The problematic nature of representational thinking -- Responding to the postmodern challenge.The use of postmodern thought to approach the study of religion threatens to call into question the values and representational mode of thinking typical of the field. Religious studies with a radical scepticism grounded in an embrace of decadence by postmodern thinkers has the potential to undermine, subvert, and distort the study of religion, making it difficult to understand the subject if such an approach is uncritically adopted by scholars seeking new ways to study it.ReligionMethodologyReligionStudy and teachingPostmodernismReligionHILCCPhilosophy & ReligionHILCCReligion - GeneralHILCCReligionMethodologyReligionStudy and teachingPostmodernismReligionPhilosophy & ReligionReligion - General200.72Olson Carl614704PQKBBOOK9910814944603321The allure of decadent thinking : religious studies and the challenge of postmodernism4093571UNINA