05036oam 2200673I 450 991095586710332120251116192612.01-136-48031-51-138-16579-41-315-01549-81-136-48024-210.4324/9781315015491 (CKB)2550000001117420(EBL)1395480(OCoLC)862823703(SSID)ssj0001000557(PQKBManifestationID)12397434(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001000557(PQKBWorkID)10952138(PQKB)10404961(MiAaPQ)EBC1395480(Au-PeEL)EBL1395480(CaPaEBR)ebr10763882(CaONFJC)MIL517858(OCoLC)858861723(FINmELB)ELB137574(EXLCZ)99255000000111742020180331d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRationality and the study of religion /edited by Jeppe Sinding Jensen and Luther H. MartinLondon ;New York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (224 p.)Originally published: Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press, 1997, in series: Acta Jutlandica.0-415-28199-7 1-299-86607-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-202) and index.Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Preface ; Table of ContentsRationality and the Study of Religion: Introduction Repossessions of privileged opinions; On values and rationality; Rationality in question; Taking stock: Some current notions of rationality; Notes; Anti Anti-Rationalism: Anthropology and the Rationality of Human Acts ; Universalism versus particularism: an outline of the controversy; Anthropological transcriptions: the modernist fashionAnthropological transcriptions: postmodemist fashionIn search of a compromise; Critical assessment of previous theories; Contextualism and the rationality problem; Notes; Lévy-Bruhl, Participation, and Rationality ; Levy-Bruhl: Myth and Reality; Participation ; Affectivity in Thought; Exploring Affectivity; Rationality, Reflexivity, and Experience; Notes; East Asian Rationality in the Exploration of ReligionProlegomenaThe roots of the rational exploration of religion; Leading strands in Tominaga's thought; Recent reactions to Emerging from Meditation; Tominaga did not speak Chinese; Implications and conclusions; Notes; Religious Models and Problem Solving: A Cognitive Perspective on the Roles of Rationality in Comparative Religion ; Introduction; Orientation: The roles of rationality in comparative religion; The cognitivist framework; Encountering rationality and religion in the wild; The arguments:; 1) The ontological character of rationality; 2) The methodological status of rationality3) The commonsense notion of rationality4) Religion and rationality; Religious models; A Jamesian view of religious models: building a religious robot; Durkheim on naive physics and rationality; 5) 'I am right, you are wrong'; Conclusion; Notes; Rationality, Social Science and Religion ; Content and Context; Subject and Object; The Importance of Truth; The Concept of Truth and the Study of ReligionSocial Facts, Metaphysics and Rationality in the Human SciencesDoes rationality, the intellectual bedrock of all science, apply to the study of religion?<BR>Religion, arguably the most subjective area of human behaviour, has particular challenges associated with its study. Attracting crowd-healers, conjurers, the pious and the prophetic alongside comparativists and sceptics, it excites opinions and generalizations whilst seldom explicitly staking out the territory for the discussions in which it partakes. Increasingly, scholars argue that religious study needs to define and critique its own field, and to distinguish itself from theology and other non-objeReligionMethodologyCongressesReligionMethodology200/.7/2Jensen Jeppe Sinding1951-1867972Martin Luther H.1937-1678628MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955867103321Rationality and the study of religion4497950UNINA