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Explaining and Interpreting Religion|Donald Wiebe

Explaining and Interpreting Religion : Essays on the Issue

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Overview

This collection of recent essays on the social scientific study of religion makes the fundamental claim that on the one hand social scientists cannot be facilely grouped into explainers rather than interpreters of religion and that on the other hand scholars of religious studies - religionists - cannot fend off the social scientific challenge by rejecting explanation for interpretation. Not only are the concepts of explanation and interpretation defined differently in different fields, but by most definitions of the terms religionists and social scientists alike both explain and interpret religion. An acute hiatus between religionists and social scientists remains, but it is over how, not whether, religion gets explained and interpreted.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780820419145
  • ISBN-10: 0820419141
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
  • Publish Date: December 1992
  • Page Count: 155

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