Rationality and the Study of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rationality and the Study of Religion write by Jeppe Sinding Jensen. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Rationality and the Study of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Does rationality, the intellectual bedrock of all science, apply to the study of religion? Religion, arguably the most subjective area of human behaviour, has particular challenges associated with its study. Attracting crowd-healers, conjurers, the pious and the prophetic alongside comparativists and sceptics, it excites opinions and generalizations whilst seldom explicitly staking out the territory for the discussions in which it partakes. Increasingly, scholars argue that religious study needs to define and critique its own field, and to distinguish itself from theology and other non-objective disciplines. Yet how can rational techniques be applied to beliefs and states of mind regarded by some as beyond the scope of human reason? Can these be made empirically testable, or comparable and replicable within academic communities? Can science explicate religion without reducing it to mere superstition, or redefine its truth in some empirical but meaningful way? Featuring contributions from leading international experts including Donald Wiebe, Roger Trigg and Michael Pye, Rationality and the Study of Religion gets under the surface of the religious studies discipline to expose the ideologies beneath. Reopening debate in a neglected yet philosophically significant field, it questions the role of rationality in religious anthropology, natural history and anti-scientific theologies, with implications not only for supposedly objective disciplines but for our deepest attitudes to personal experience. 'Interesting and important. Religion has long been associated with irrationality, both by its defenders and its critics, and the topic of rationality has been unjustly neglected The book certainly deserves to be widely circulated.' Greg Alles, Western Maryland College
Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life
Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life write by Mikael Stenmark. This book was released on 2016-09-15. Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mikael Stenmark examines four models of rationality and argues for a discussion of rationality that takes into account the function and aim of such human practices as science and religion.
Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality
Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality write by Stanley J. Tambiah. This book was released on 1990-03-22. Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This accessible and illuminating book explores the classical opposition between magic, science and religion.
Rationality and Religious Theism
Rationality and Religious Theism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rationality and Religious Theism write by Joshua L. Golding. This book was released on 2017-11-22. Rationality and Religious Theism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout the ages one of the central topics in philosophy of religion has been the rationality of theistic belief. This book proposes that parties on both sides of this debate might shift their attention in a different direction, by focusing on the question of whether it is rational to be a religious theist. Explaining that having theistic beliefs is primarily a cognitive affair but being a religious theist involves a whole way of life that includes one's beliefs, Golding argues that it can be pragmatically rational to be a religious theist even if the evidence for God’s existence is minimal. The argument is applied to the case of Judaism, articulating what is involved in religious Judaism and arguing that it is rationally defensible to be a religious Jew. The book concludes with a discussion of whether a similar argument might be constructed for other versions of religious theism such as Christianity or Islam, and for non-theistic religions such as Taoism or Buddhism. Joshua Golding offers a carefully wrought explanation of how it can be rational for someone to live a religious life, in particular (but not necessarily only), a traditional Jewish life.
Rationality and Religion
Rationality and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rationality and Religion write by Roger Trigg. This book was released on 1998-06-08. Rationality and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rationality and Religion deals with the perennial question of how far religious faith needs reason.
