RT Book
T1 Intentional systems theory as a conceptual framework for religious studies: a scientific method for studying beliefs
A2 Kamppinen, Matti 1961-
LA English
PP Lewiston, N.Y
PB Edwin Mellen Press
YR 2010
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1654212296
AB Intentional systems theory and the empirical study of religion -- Intentional systems and common sense -- Intentional systems in the works of Durkheim, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard -- Amazonian folk religion -- Theory of intentional systems -- Systems thinking -- Composition of intentional systems -- Structure of intentional systems -- Belief as a theoretical and functional entity -- Religious intentional systems -- Religious contents and their dynamics -- Hallmark of religious contents -- Gods in flabbergast, a constructed religion -- Cultural models as systems of contents -- Dynamics of contents : tradition ecology -- Tradition ecology and illness models -- Rationality as systemic property -- Rationality as a precondition of ethnographic descriptions -- Rationality as an explanatory principle -- Rationality and religious games -- Rationality and critical study of religion -- Navigating in the world of uncertainty -- Possible worlds -- Cultural models of time -- Playing against Yashingo -- Playing against technological risks -- Playing against market forces -- Playing against superior beings in archaic and modern societies -- Imposing the features of religions into other cultural systems -- Concepts of boundary and sacred -- Intentional systems and boundaries -- Foundations and uses of boundaries -- Sacred as a boundary that involves supernatural entities.
AB This book investigates the philosophical assumptions in religious studies, especially in ethnography of religion. The central claim is that religious studies treats its study object as an intentional system. This system?s behaviour can be described, explained and predicted on the basis of its internal representations
NO Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
CN BL41
SN 077341665X
SN 9780773416659
K1 Religion : Methodology
K1 System Theory
K1 Intentionality (Philosophy)
K1 PHILOSOPHY ; Religious
K1 Religion ; Methodology
K1 Religion
K1 Philosophy & Religion
K1 Religion - General
K1 Electronic books