LEADER 04048nam 2200685 450 001 9910788560303321 005 20230428003321.0 010 $a1-61451-350-3 010 $a1-61451-821-1 010 $a1-61451-349-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781614513490 035 $a(CKB)3280000000038912 035 $a(EBL)1345121 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001333752 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12603272 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001333752 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11386250 035 $a(PQKB)11184023 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1345121 035 $a(DE-B1597)208429 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781614513490 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1345121 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11006188 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL805161 035 $a(OCoLC)883915358 035 $a(EXLCZ)993280000000038912 100 $a20140206h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe scientification of religion $ean historical study of discursive change, 1800-2000 /$fKocku von Stuckrad 210 1$aBoston :$cDe Gruyter,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-61451-678-2 311 0 $a1-61451-626-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 183-210) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tPreface --$tContents --$t1. Religion and Science in Discursive Perspective --$tPart One: Discarded Knowledge and Its New Legitimacy in Secular Discourse --$t2. From Polemical Disjunction to New Integration: The Science of the Stars --$t3. Alchemical Quests in Modern Garb --$t4. Darwinism Turned into Religion: Monism --$t5. Merging Occultism, Philosophy, Science, and the Academic Study of Religion: The Theosophical Society --$tPart Two: Academics as Religious Pioneers --$t6. The Trouble with Europe: Academic Orientalism and New Mystical Religions --$t7. In Search of the Great Goddess: How Academic Theories Generated Paganism and Witchcraft --$t8. Normatizing Shamanism: Academic Teachers as Religious Experts --$tConclusion: The Scientification of Religion --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe enigmatic relation between religion and science still presents a challenge to European societies and to ideas about what it means to be 'modern.' This book argues that European secularism, rather than pushing back religious truth claims, in fact has been religiously productive itself. The institutional establishment of new disciplines in the nineteenth century, such as religious studies, anthropology, psychology, classical studies, and the study of various religious traditions, led to a professionalization of knowledge about religion that in turn attributed new meanings to religion. This attribution of meaning resulted in the emergence of new religious identities and practices. In a dynamic that is closely linked to this discursive change, the natural sciences adopted religious and metaphysical claims and integrated them in their framework of meaning, resulting in a special form of scientific religiosity that has gained much influence in the twentieth century. Applying methods that come from historical discourse analysis, the book demonstrates that religious semantics have been reconfigured in the secular sciences. Ultimately, the scientification of religion perpetuated religious truth claims under conditions of secularism. 606 $aReligion and science 606 $aSecularism$zEurope 610 $aWestern esotericism. 610 $ahistorical discourse analysis. 610 $areligion and science. 610 $asecularism. 615 0$aReligion and science. 615 0$aSecularism 676 $a201/.6509 686 $aBE 2210$2rvk 700 $aStuckrad$b Kocku von$f1966-$0601355 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788560303321 996 $aThe scientification of religion$93673899 997 $aUNINA