Nancy K. Frankenberry

Religion and Radical Empiricism

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Produktbeschreibung

Rarely in modern times has religion been associated with empiricism except to its own peril. This book represents a comprehensive and systematic effort to retrieve and develop the tradition of American religious empiricism for religious inquiry. Religion and Radical Empiricism offers a challenging account of how and why reflection on religious truth-claims must seek justification of those claims finally in terms of empirical criteria. Ranging through many of the major questions in philosophy of religion, the author weaves together a study of the varieties of empiricism in all its historical forms from Hume to Quine. She finds in James and Dewey; in Wieman, Meland, and Loomer of the Chicago School; in Whitehead; and in Abhidharma Buddhism constructive elements of a radically empirical approach to the controversial topic of religious experience. This work provides a strong counter-argument to critics of "revisionary theism," to caricatures of philosophy as "conversation," and to any collapse of the category of experience into its linguistic forms.

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Produktdetails

• Suny Series in Religious Studi
• Verlag: Global Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 1987
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780887064081
• ISBN-10: 0887064086
• Artikelnr.: 52423438

Autorenporträt

Nancy Frankenberry is Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College.