LEADER 05036oam 2200673I 450 001 9910828296503321 005 20240131142234.0 010 $a1-136-48031-5 010 $a1-138-16579-4 010 $a1-315-01549-8 010 $a1-136-48024-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315015491 035 $a(CKB)2550000001117420 035 $a(EBL)1395480 035 $a(OCoLC)862823703 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001000557 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12397434 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001000557 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10952138 035 $a(PQKB)10404961 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1395480 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1395480 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10763882 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL517858 035 $a(OCoLC)858861723 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB137574 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001117420 100 $a20180331d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aRationality and the study of religion /$fedited by Jeppe Sinding Jensen and Luther H. Martin 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press, 1997, in series: Acta Jutlandica. 311 $a0-415-28199-7 311 $a1-299-86607-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 184-202) and index. 327 $aCover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Preface ; Table of Contents 327 $aRationality 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 fashion 327 $aAnthropological transcriptions: postmodemist fashionIn search of a compromise; Critical assessment of previous theories; Contextualism and the rationality problem; Notes; Le?vy-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 Religion 327 $aProlegomenaThe 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 rationality 327 $a3) 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 Religion 327 $aSocial Facts, Metaphysics and Rationality in the Human Sciences 330 $aDoes rationality, the intellectual bedrock of all science, apply to the study of religion?
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