A Western Folk Category in Mind?

Theoretically and methodologically, students of religion are grouped in a borderland with a great variety of competing approaches. Most of these offer heuristic tools for the interpretation of those human activities that we group together with the help of the concept 'religion'. Others pre...

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Main Author: Rydving, Håkan 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2008
In: Temenos
Year: 2008, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 73-99
Further subjects:B hermeneutics of suspicion
B counterintuitivity
B hypothesis testing
B cognitive science of religion
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Summary:Theoretically and methodologically, students of religion are grouped in a borderland with a great variety of competing approaches. Most of these offer heuristic tools for the interpretation of those human activities that we group together with the help of the concept 'religion'. Others present religion as a 'real phenomenon' and offer explanations. The purpose of this article is to discuss some aspects of the most influential of the approaches in the second group, the 'congnitive science of religion'.
ISSN:2342-7256
Contains:Enthalten in: Temenos
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.33356/temenos.4599