G Scott Davis

Believing and Acting

The Pragmatic Turn in Comparative Religion and Ethics

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Produktbeschreibung

How should religion and ethics be studied if we want to understand what people believe and why they act the way they do? An energetic guide to the study of religion and ethics, rejecting theories from postmodernism and cognitive science in favour of a return to pragmatic enquiry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 145mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780199583904
• ISBN-10: 0199583900
• Artikelnr.: 34157047

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Believing and Acting: The Allure of Method in the Study of
Religion
* 2: Peirce and the Legacy of Pragmatism
* 3: Ethics, Religion, and the Limits of Empiricism
* 4: Richard Rorty and the Pragmatic Turn in the Study of Religion
* 5: 'Gay Fine Colours': Cognitive Science and the Study of Religion
* 6: 'The Base of Design': Relativism and Fieldwork in Contemporary
Anthropology
* 7: From the History of Art to Comparative Religion and Ethics
* 8: From Comparisons to Cases: Pragmatism and the Politics of Virtue