Language, Truth, and Religious Belief : Studies in Twentieth-Century Theory and Method in Religion Paperback / softback
Edited by Nancy K. Frankenberry, Hans H. Penner
Part of the AAR Religions in Translation series
Paperback / softback
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Why do many people think religion is subjective? Or symbolic? Or non-rational? This book brings together eighteen important twentieth-century essaus on these questions, by authors ranging from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Richard Rorty and Clifford Geertz.
The editors show that such questions are both quite modern and powerfully influential in our Western thinking about religious belief.
Moreover, they lead directly into the three most popular theories that attempt to make sense of religion: positivism, functionalism, and relativism.
Selecting essays that represent each of these three theoretical positions, Frankenberry and Penner trace their incoherence and argue for a new method and theory for understanding religious beliefs.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:552 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:02/01/1999
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- ISBN:9780788505409
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:552 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:02/01/1999
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- ISBN:9780788505409
