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رده
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NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA110724
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
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انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Deconstructing Religion:
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[Article]
Other Title Information
Some Thoughts on Where We Go From Here - A Hermeneutical Proposal
First Statement of Responsibility
Paul Hedges
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This paper overviews contemporary debates on the deconstruction / historization of the category 'religion'. It argues that a hard deconstruction which seeks to suggest the term is an empty signifier and analytically useless is unfounded philosophically and empirically. However, a soft deconstruction which accepts the problems of employing the term, especially as found in the World Religions Paradigm, but suggests that 'religion' remains a useful tool to describe a specific social reality, is well founded. The article extends current debates by showing how philosophical hermeneutics, especially as exemplified by Hans-Georg Gadamer's work, supports the soft deconstructive approach and further shows the conceptual inadequacy of hard deconstruction. This paper overviews contemporary debates on the deconstruction / historization of the category 'religion'. It argues that a hard deconstruction which seeks to suggest the term is an empty signifier and analytically useless is unfounded philosophically and empirically. However, a soft deconstruction which accepts the problems of employing the term, especially as found in the World Religions Paradigm, but suggests that 'religion' remains a useful tool to describe a specific social reality, is well founded. The article extends current debates by showing how philosophical hermeneutics, especially as exemplified by Hans-Georg Gadamer's work, supports the soft deconstructive approach and further shows the conceptual inadequacy of hard deconstruction.
SET
Date of Publication
2018
Physical description
5-24
Title
Exchange
Volume Number
47/1
International Standard Serial Number
1572-543X
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
deconstruction
Subject Term
epistemology
Subject Term
Gadamer
Subject Term
hermeneutics
Subject Term
religion
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Paul Hedges
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10.1163/1572543X-12341465
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[Article]
275578
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