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.
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ISBN
9781441157980
Publisert
2015
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1. utgave
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Vendor
Continuum
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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