LEADER 04573nam 22005655 450 001 9911015681403321 005 20250713130223.0 010 $a9783031964886$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031964879 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-96488-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32207853 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32207853 035 $a(CKB)39633603600041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-96488-6 035 $a(OCoLC)1528961844 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939633603600041 100 $a20250713d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPositioning the Scholar $eEpistemological and Methodological Issues in the Evolutionary Study of Religion /$fby Indrek Peedu 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (337 pages) 225 1 $aNew Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion,$x2367-3508 ;$v20 311 08$aPrint version: Peedu, Indrek Positioning the Scholar Cham : Springer,c2025 9783031964879 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Scientific Explanation of Religiosity: a Research Programme and a Goal -- Chapter 3. Method(ology) in the Study of Religion -- Chapter 4. The Problem of Epistemological Presuppositions and Inferences in the Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches -- Chapter 5. Evolution, Epistemology and Religiosity -- Chapter 6. The Underdetermination of Scientific Research and the Evolutionary Study of Religion -- Chapter 7. The Study of Religion and the Search for Epistemological and Methodological Unity -- Chapter 8. The Study of Religion and the Position(s) of the Scholar. 330 $aIndrek Peedu is a Lecturer of Religious Studies at the University of Tartu. He completed his PhD studies at the University of Tartu in 2019 for a thesis that received the 2020 ESSSAT Research Prize. He has previously also worked as an Associated Researcher at the Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum. He is the current President of the Estonian Society for the Study of Religions. His main areas of research are method and theory in the study of religion, history of the study of religion, evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion and the intellectual history of social, cultural and religious evolutionism. His previous publications include the edited volume Estonian Study of Religion: A Reader (University of Tartu Press, 2019) as well as numerous articles in many academic journals. This book presents a systematic study of the issue of positioning in the scientific study of religion. The book discusses the wider context of positioning in the study of religion, highlights the epistemological and methodological presumptions as well as the implicit goals in play in the cognitive and evolutionary approaches. Particular focus is on the contemporary evolutionary, cognitive and behavioral study of religion and the issues of positioning in the context of these research approaches. Based on this it presents an in-depth analysis of the prevalent conceptualizations of the position of the scholar in the study of religion: methodological naturalism, methodological agnosticism, neutrality and the dialogical position. Furthermore, for the first time the relevance of both evolutionary epistemology and the underdetermination of scientific research is shown for the purposes of a full evaluation of the justifiability of particular epistemological arguments. Finally, directions forward in discussing and conceptualizing the position of the scholar in the study of religion are suggested. The book is expected to be of relevance and interest for scholars of religion interested in method and theory in the study of religion, evolutionary and cognitive study of religion and other related fields. 410 0$aNew Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion,$x2367-3508 ;$v20 606 $aReligion and science 606 $aCognitive science 606 $aReligions 606 $aCognitive Science of Religion 606 $aComparative Religion 615 0$aReligion and science. 615 0$aCognitive science. 615 0$aReligions. 615 14$aCognitive Science of Religion. 615 24$aComparative Religion. 676 $a306.6 676 $a153 700 $aPeedu$b Indrek$01832341 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9911015681403321 996 $aPositioning the Scholar$94406374 997 $aUNINA