This article focuses on Jonathan Z. Smith's 1978 essay, "Map is Not Territory," in terms of its definition of religion, allegiance to anthropology and history, and avoidance of relativism. Updated to the author's situation forty years later, it articulates the relation between map and territory as one of asymmetrical dependence governed by the rule that the concrete includes the abstract and exceeds it in value. Reading Smith's essay in light of Donald Davidson's "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" provides a philosophical argument against radical relativism. Two brief aperçu about Smith frame this account. This article focuses on Jonathan Z. Smith's 1978 essay, "Map is Not Territory," in terms of its definition of religion, allegiance to anthropology and history, and avoidance of relativism. Updated to the author's situation forty years later, it articulates the relation between map and territory as one of asymmetrical dependence governed by the rule that the concrete includes the abstract and exceeds it in value. Reading Smith's essay in light of Donald Davidson's "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" provides a philosophical argument against radical relativism. Two brief aperçu about Smith frame this account.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2019
توصيف ظاهري
3-13
عنوان
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
شماره جلد
31/1
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1570-0682
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اصطلاح موضوعی
definition of religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Donald Davidson
اصطلاح موضوعی
Hans Penner
اصطلاح موضوعی
Jonathan Z. Smith
اصطلاح موضوعی
radical empiricism
اصطلاح موضوعی
relativism
اصطلاح موضوعی
scheme-content distinction
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