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Religion and the Discourse on Modernity

By Paul-Franois Tremlett

Religion and the Discourse on Modernity Philosophy

Religion and the Discourse on Modernity

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The point of departure for this book is the debate about whether religious studies should privilege explanation or understanding. Engaging with contemporary scholarship in the field, Tremlett argues that the study of religions has always involved the conflation of facts and values and indeed has been structured in advance by the value-saturated discourse on disenchanted modernity. He argues that phenomenological and post-modern approaches to religions lack both theoretical and methodological coherence, and in their stead proposes a Marxist approach to religions that is at once empirical and informed by values pertaining to social justice, freedom and autonomy.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
170
Release Date:
2009-03-08
Publication Date:
2009-01-08
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
082649823X
ISBN13:
9780826498236
Weight:
426 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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