The western epistemic tradition and the scientific study of religion /
"This book provides an account of how a science of religion was able to emerge from the devotional, catechetical, theological, and philosophical forms of 'religious studies' that have generally characterized this field of scholarship. Although elements of the scientific study of relig...
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT :
Equinox Publishing Ltd,
2023
Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- Setting the boundaries for the scientific study of religious phenomena
- The deep history of the scientific study of religious thought and behaviour
- From myth to proto-science : a transformational turning Point in the history of human thought
- The rise and decline of the sciences in the Hellenistic period
- Latin Christendom and scientific thought in the Middle Ages
- The Renaissance, scientific revolution, and enlightenment
- The age of discovery and the Protestant Reformation
- Crossing a threshold in the scholarly study of religion
- Modernity, postmodernity, and the study of religion
- Epilogue: A scientific revolution in slow motion