The science of religion : a defence: essays by Donald Wiebe / edited, introduced, and critiqued by Anthony J. Palma.

Donald Wiebe, Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Trinity College, University of Toronto, has spent much of his academic career arguing for a clear demarcation between Theology and Religious Studies. The Science of Religion: A Defence offers a brilliant overview of Professor Wiebe's contributions...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Essays. Selections
Supplements to Method & theory in the study of religion ; v. 12.
Main Author: Wiebe, Donald, 1943- (Author)
Other Authors: Palma, Anthony J. (Editor, writer of introduction, etc.)
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Series:Supplements to Method & theory in the study of religion ; v. 12.
Subjects:
Religion > Methodology.
Methodologie.
Religion.
Religionswissenschaft.
Wissenschaft.
Physical Description:xi, 340 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Explanation and the scientific study of religion
  • Is a science of religion possible?
  • Theory in the study of religion
  • Beyond the skeptic and the devotee : reductionism in the scientific study of religion
  • Postscript : on method, metaphysics, and reductionism
  • The role of belief in the study of religion : a response to Wilfred Cantwell Smith
  • Disciplinary axioms, boundary conditions, and the academic study of religion : comments on Pals and Dawson
  • On the transformation of "belief" and the domestication of "faith" in the academic study of religion
  • "Understanding" in religious studies : a gnostic aberration in the modern study of religion?
  • Beyond thick descriptions and interpretive sciences : explaining religious meaning
  • "Why the academic study of religion?" : motive and method in the study of religion
  • "Taking religion seriously" : Eric Sharpe’s comparative religion - history as apology
  • On theological resistance to the scientific study of religion : values and the value-free study of religion
  • Dissolving rationality : the anti-science phenomenon and its implications for the study of religion
  • Transcending religious language : towards the recovery of an academic agenda
  • Conclusion. An encroaching spirituality : what hope remains for a science of religion?
  • Critique. The preconceptions of a "science of religion" / Anthony J. Palma
  • Reply. Preconceptions about a science of religion? : my response to Anthony Palma / Donald Wiebe.