Why Study Religion? offers an alternative framework, Critical Humanism, for thinking about the purposes of the discipline. Richard B. Miller theorizes about the ends rather than the means of humanistic scholarship. He argues that the future of religious studies will depend on how well it can articulate its goals as a basis for motivating scholarship in the field.
Why Study Religion? offers an alternative framework, Critical Humanism, for thinking about the purposes of the discipline. Richard B. Miller theorizes about the ends rather than the means of humanistic scholarship. He argues that the future of religious studies will depend on how well it can articulate its goals as a basis for motivating scholarship in the field.
Richard B. Miller is a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Religion, Politics, and Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture, and the award-winning Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition; Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning; and Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought.
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Acknowledgments I. A Crisis of Rationale Chapter 1: On Justifying the Study of Religion Chapter 2: The Ethics of Religious Studies II. A Regime of Truth Chapter 3: Interpretation, Comparison, and the History of Religions Chapter 4: Scientific Rationality and Causal Explanation Chapter 5: Existential Symbolism and Theological Anthropology Chapter 6: Embodied Practice and Materialistic Phenomenology Chapter 7: Genealogy, Ideology, and Critical Theory Chapter 8: Philosophy, Normativity, and Metacriticism III. Purposes, Desires, and Critical Humanism Chapter 9: Religious Studies and the Values of Critical Humanism 1. The End of Religious Studies 2. Acts and Moral Agency 3. Critical Humanism 4. Four Values 5. Exemplary Works in the Study of Religion 6. Critical Humanism and the Ethics of Religious Studies Epilogue: Critical Humanism as a Vocation
Acknowledgments I. A Crisis of Rationale Chapter 1: On Justifying the Study of Religion Chapter 2: The Ethics of Religious Studies II. A Regime of Truth Chapter 3: Interpretation, Comparison, and the History of Religions Chapter 4: Scientific Rationality and Causal Explanation Chapter 5: Existential Symbolism and Theological Anthropology Chapter 6: Embodied Practice and Materialistic Phenomenology Chapter 7: Genealogy, Ideology, and Critical Theory Chapter 8: Philosophy, Normativity, and Metacriticism III. Purposes, Desires, and Critical Humanism Chapter 9: Religious Studies and the Values of Critical Humanism 1. The End of Religious Studies 2. Acts and Moral Agency 3. Critical Humanism 4. Four Values 5. Exemplary Works in the Study of Religion 6. Critical Humanism and the Ethics of Religious Studies Epilogue: Critical Humanism as a Vocation
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