Brill | Conversations And Controversies In The Scientific Study Of Religion (2016 EN)

Author: Luther Martin (Editor), Donald Wiebe (Editor)
Full Title: Conversations And Controversies In The Scientific Study Of Religion
Publisher: ‎ Brill (February 25, 2016)
Year: 2016
ISBN-13: 9789004310452 (978-90-04-31045-2), 9789004310445 (978-90-04-31044-5)
ISBN-10: 9004310452, 9004310444
Pages: 344
Language: English
Genre: Religious Studies
File type: PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 117.00 €


Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe together have spent the better part of a century exploring possibilities for a scientific study of religion. The following essays are a record of their conversations together and of their conversations and controversies with a number of leading scholars in religious studies that address that possibility. As with any scientific endeavor, knowledge advances when research assumptions and experimental designs are collegially discussed and critically assessed. It is hoped that these essays might provide the occasion for scholars in the field to discuss the theoretical and methodological issues they have raised, to debate and expand upon them, or, in the spirit of forthright scientific inquiry, to refute the arguments they have made.


Readership:
All scholars, students and members of the general public interested in an academic/scientific study of religion.

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