Richard B. Miller ( Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Religion

Why Study Religion?

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 166mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780197566817
• ISBN-10: 0197566812
• Artikelnr.: 62536472

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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