More Than Belief

A Materialist Theory of Religion

Автор: Manuel A. Vasquez

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Издател: Oxford University Press Inc

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Over the past several decades, postmodernist and postcolonial challenges to traditional theories and...

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Автор

Manuel A. Vasquez

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2010

страници

392

EAN

9780195188547

ISBN

0195188543

Enbook ID

04516805

Издател

Oxford University Press Inc

Теглоt

600

Размери

229 x 154 x 26

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Over the past several decades, postmodernist and postcolonial challenges to traditional theories and methods have revolutionized the social sciences. The discipline of religious studies, however, has been relatively slow to confront these developments, continuing to rely heavily on textual methods and a framework that privileges belief over practice, doctrine over performance, text over context, and inner emotion over public ritual. Recently, however, developments in social theory have begun to transform the study of religion. In this book, Manuel Vasquez maps out the dynamics of this paradigm shift, exploring systematically the epistemological and methodological challenges contemporary social theory poses for traditional approaches to religious studies. Offering a panoramic view of key debates on identity, culture, and society across the social sciences, he assesses the impact of these debates on the study of religion, offering specific examples of how they are shaping the study of particular religious traditions. He concludes by proposing a robust yet flexible materialist approach to the study of religion that will be capable of addressing the increasing complexity of religious life.

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