Religion and the discourse on modernity / / Paul-François Tremlett

• Autore: Tremlett Paul-François
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (170 p.)
• Disciplina: 210.1
• Soggetto topico: Critical theory; Phenomenology; Reductionism; Religion - Methodology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-143) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Re-thinking reductionism -- Post-modernism and the study of religions -- Critical theory.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The point of departure for this book is the debate about whether religious studies should privilege explanation or understanding. Engaging with contemporary scholarship in the field, Tremlett argues that the study of religions has always involved the conflation of facts and values and indeed has been structured in advance by the value-saturated discourse on disenchanted modernity. He argues that phenomenological and post-modern approaches to religions lack both theoretical and methodological coherence, and in their stead proposes a Marxist approach to religions that is at once empirical and informed by values pertaining to social justice, freedom and autonomy."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Religion and the discourse on modernity
• ISBN: 1-4725-4923-6; 1-282-87513-2; 9786612875137; 1-4411-5798-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807091603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Continuum advances in religious studies.