RT Article
T1 The Aims of Typologies and a Typology of Methods
JF Zygon
VO 58
IS 3
SP 656
OP 677
A1 Chin, Adam J. ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1859044549
AB Typologies like Ian Barbour's have been widely used - and critiqued - in religion-and-science. Several alternatives have been proposed by, for example, John Haught, Willem Drees, Mikael Stenmark, and Shoaib Ahmed Malik. However, there has been a surprising deficit in discussion of what we wish typologies to do in religion and science in the first place. In this article, I provide a general analysis of typologies in religion-and-science by (1) providing a classification of existing typologies as conclusion- or concept-oriented; (2) showing that typologies are used, or expected to be used, as first-order categorizations of how religion and science are related and as second-order classifications of scholars/scholarly works; (3) discussing several aims which we might want typologies to achieve in their second-order usage; and (4) presenting a new kind of typology focused on the methods used by scholars which achieves those aims in a unique way.
K1 Ian Barbour
K1 Classification
K1 historicizing
K1 Methodology
K1 Public values
K1 Science and religion
K1 Typologies
DO 10.1111/zygo.12890