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Language, Truth, and Religious Belief: Studies in Twentieth-Century Theory and Method in Religion - AAR Religions in Translation Nancy K Frankenberry
Language, Truth, and Religious Belief: Studies in Twentieth-Century Theory and Method in Religion - AAR Religions in Translation
Nancy K Frankenberry
Why do many people think religion is subjective? Or symbolic? Or non-rational? This book brings together eighteen important twentieth-century essaus on these questions, by authors ranging from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Richard Rorty and Clifford Geertz. The editors show that such questions are both quite modern and powerfully influential in our Western thinking about religious belief. Moreover, they lead directly into the three most popular theories that attempt to makesense of religion: positivism, functionalism, and relativism. Selecting essays that represent each of these three theoretical positions, Frankenberry and Penner trace their incoherence and argue for a new method and theory for understanding religious beliefs.
548 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 2, 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780788505409 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Genre | Theometrics > Academic |
| Pages | 552 |
| Dimensions | 154 × 228 × 30 mm · 680 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Frankenberry, Nancy K. |
| Editor | Penner, Hans H. |