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The "insider/outsider problem" is a theoretical and methodological issue that confronts the student of human behaviour and culture. This anthology collects 30 readings, from such writers as Kant, Hume, Schleiermacher and Otto, to Ninian Smart, Mircea Eliade, Karen McCarthy-Brown and Wendy Doniger-O'Flaherty, that investigate the ways in which scholars of religion have grappled with the relations between studying, practising and advocating. Moving from influential readings in linguistics and anthropology, the volume's thematically arranged chapter introduce readers to the strengths and weaknesses of several popular options in addressing the insider/outsider problem.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 General introduction. Part 2 Theoretical background - insides, outsides and the scholar of religion: body ritual among the Nacirema, Horace Miner; etic and emic standpoints for the description of behaviour, Kenneth L. Pike; the epistemology of cultural materialism, Marvin Harris; is understanding religion compatible with believing Alisdair MacIntyre. Part 3 The autonomy of religious experience: the nature of religion, Friedrich Schleiermacher; the idea of the holy (chapters 1-111), Rudolph Otto; the meaning and task of the history of religions ("Religionswissenschaft"), Joachim Wach; a new humanism, Mircea Eliade; feminist anthropology and the gendering of religious studies, Rosalind Shaw; an anthropological approach to the study if religion, Raymond Shaw. Part 4 Reductionism in the study of religion: what is enlightenment, Emmanuel Kant; excerpts from the "Natural History of Religion", David Hume; in defence of reductionism, Robert A. Segal; religious discourse and first person authority, Terry Godlove; religion, explanation, and the askesis of inquiry, Tony Edwards; reductionism and belief - an appraisal of recent attacks on the doctrine of irreducible religion, Daniel Pals. Part 5 Neutrality and methodological agnostocism: sociological and theological perspectives, Peter Berger; within and without religion, Ninian Smart; fessing up in theory - on professing and confessing in the religious studies classroom, Martin S. Jaffee; the study of religion - neutral? scientific? or neither?, Peter Byrne: does understanding religion require religious understanding?, Donald Wiebe; neutrality in religious studies, Peter Donovan.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780304701780
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • Height: 248 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Reader
  • Width: 171 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0304701785
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jan 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Controversies in the Study of Religion S.
  • Weight: 730 gr


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