عنوان

On the Relationship Between Method and the Object of Study When Studying Religion

شماره

LA122780

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

On the Relationship Between Method and the Object of Study When Studying Religion

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Cameron David Warner

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

If a discipline is defined by the object of its study, then the definition of the object of study has a priori paramount importance. Studies of the evolution of the study of religion show that researchers have been unable to escape their own socio-political contexts. I begin with a brief consideration of the evolution of superstition as a means to gain perspective on the evolution of the study of religion and definitions of religion and as a cautionary note to both the contextual study of religion and the cognitive-evolutionary (ce) study of religion. I then continue with an overview of our conference, "Researching Religion: Methodological Debates in Anthropology and the Study of Religion," at Aarhus University, and the seven articles published in this special double issue of Numen. Taken together, they reflect and address an international rupture between the contextual and the ce study of religion, and point towards productive avenues for future research. If a discipline is defined by the object of its study, then the definition of the object of study has a priori paramount importance. Studies of the evolution of the study of religion show that researchers have been unable to escape their own socio-political contexts. I begin with a brief consideration of the evolution of superstition as a means to gain perspective on the evolution of the study of religion and definitions of religion and as a cautionary note to both the contextual study of religion and the cognitive-evolutionary (ce) study of religion. I then continue with an overview of our conference, "Researching Religion: Methodological Debates in Anthropology and the Study of Religion," at Aarhus University, and the seven articles published in this special double issue of Numen. Taken together, they reflect and address an international rupture between the contextual and the ce study of religion, and point towards productive avenues for future research.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

131-144

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

61/2-3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

anthropology of religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

cognitive science of religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

history of religions

اصطلاح موضوعی

method

اصطلاح موضوعی

superstition

اصطلاح موضوعی

theory

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Cameron David Warner

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685276-12341312

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y