عنوان

A Call for a Permissible Plurality Within Theory-Building in a Time of Excess

شماره

LA121575

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A Call for a Permissible Plurality Within Theory-Building in a Time of Excess

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Adrian Hermann

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Theory in a Time of Excess (Equinox 2017) serves as a useful starting point to argue for a plural understanding of theory in the study of religion. While the existing conversation often implies that there is only one acceptable way of theorizing, it seems useful to distinguish between (at least) three understandings of theory-and a fourth potentially "illegitimate" one. These four forms (discourse theories, creative theories, scientific theories, and essentialist theories) are all present in the volume. Different theoretical approaches can learn from each other and expose their respective blind spots, which is the main reason to further a meta-theoretical debate about a permissible plurality within theory-building. Rather than a call to "just get along" under one big tent, this critical attitude implies that we should strive to better profile all four of these forms of theorizing in order to discuss their potential place in our discipline. Theory in a Time of Excess (Equinox 2017) serves as a useful starting point to argue for a plural understanding of theory in the study of religion. While the existing conversation often implies that there is only one acceptable way of theorizing, it seems useful to distinguish between (at least) three understandings of theory-and a fourth potentially "illegitimate" one. These four forms (discourse theories, creative theories, scientific theories, and essentialist theories) are all present in the volume. Different theoretical approaches can learn from each other and expose their respective blind spots, which is the main reason to further a meta-theoretical debate about a permissible plurality within theory-building. Rather than a call to "just get along" under one big tent, this critical attitude implies that we should strive to better profile all four of these forms of theorizing in order to discuss their potential place in our discipline.

تاريخ نشر

2018

توصيف ظاهري

487-497

عنوان

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

شماره جلد

30/4-5

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0682

اصطلاح موضوعی

creativity

اصطلاح موضوعی

discourse

اصطلاح موضوعی

plurality

اصطلاح موضوعی

religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

theory

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Adrian Hermann

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700682-12341442

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y