The Ideology of Religious Studies - Hardcover

Fitzgerald, Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195120728 ISBN 13: 9780195120721

Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

In recent years there has been an intensifying debate within the religious studies community about the validity of religion as an analytical category. In this book Fitzgerald sides with those who argue that the concept of religion itself should be abandoned. On the basis of his own research in India and Japan, and through a detailed analysis of the use of religion in a wide range of scholarly texts, the author maintains that the comparative study of religion is really a form of liberal ecumenical theology. By pretending to be a science, religion significantly distorts socio-cultural analysis. He suggest, however, that religious studies can be re-represented in a way which opens up new and productive theoretical connections with anthropology and cultural and literary studies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195120728
• ISBN 13: 9780195120721
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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