In "The Spiritual Illusion" (2014), Jonathan R. Herman wishes to initiate a discussion of the feasibility of the category "spirituality" within the study of religions. This response addresses several methodological problems with his effort, and questions the feasibility of this ironic approach. My critique is five-folded: Firstly, Herman draws a crude picture of the relationship between theology and the study of religion. Secondly, he does not explain why his sample of authors constitutes a hegemony for the understanding of "spirituality" in the study of religions. Thirdly, he ignores those who have been influential for how the category is used today. Fourthly, religion is assumed to be a "rectified" category not worthy of discussion. Fifthly, it remains unclear where an "ironic" and "imaginative" comparison of spiritual\religion and penis\vagina will take us. In "The Spiritual Illusion" (2014), Jonathan R. Herman wishes to initiate a discussion of the feasibility of the category "spirituality" within the study of religions. This response addresses several methodological problems with his effort, and questions the feasibility of this ironic approach. My critique is five-folded: Firstly, Herman draws a crude picture of the relationship between theology and the study of religion. Secondly, he does not explain why his sample of authors constitutes a hegemony for the understanding of "spirituality" in the study of religions. Thirdly, he ignores those who have been influential for how the category is used today. Fourthly, religion is assumed to be a "rectified" category not worthy of discussion. Fifthly, it remains unclear where an "ironic" and "imaginative" comparison of spiritual\religion and penis\vagina will take us.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2015
توصيف ظاهري
475-488
عنوان
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
شماره جلد
27/4-5
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1570-0682
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
conceptual/semantic history
اصطلاح موضوعی
genealogy
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
insider/outsider
اصطلاح موضوعی
methodology
اصطلاح موضوعی
religion/spirituality distinction
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
sbnr
اصطلاح موضوعی
spirituality
اصطلاح موضوعی
theology
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