Religion and the Discourse on Modernity

by Paul-François Tremlett

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:082649823X

ISBN13:9780826498236

Release Date:March 2009

Publisher:Continuum

Length:170 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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Religion Religion & Spirituality

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