The Sacred and Its Scholars: Comparative Methodologies for the Study of Primary Religious DataThomas A. Idinopulos, Edward A. Yonan This volume of essays is devoted to a careful examination of the importance of methodology in the study of primary religious data. The essays focus on the 'Sacred' as an ultimate object of descriptive analysis and critical scrutiny on the part of a select number of North American and European methodologists in the study and teaching of the history of religions and its allied disciplines. The central question to which the contributors respond are these: What is the Sacred? Is it a being or a concept of a being; is it a mental state or an objective reality or something else entirely? Can the Sacred be described as an empirical fact, or as a formal rule for religious inquiry? If the Sacred is a valid category in the study and teaching of religion, then what can be said about the antithesis of the sacred, namely the profane or the secular? This volume probes these questions with great care in order to justify a number of ways the Sacred can be construed as an indispensable notion for the study and teaching of religion. |
Contents
The Notions of Human Body | 36 |
Collaborative Representations | 65 |
Saint Veneration | 89 |
The Numinous as a Category of Values | 105 |
A Sceptical View | 124 |
Understanding and Teaching Rudolph Ottos | 139 |
The Domicile in the Study and Teaching of the Sacred | 156 |
Theology and the Pedagogy of the Sacred | 169 |
Respect of Others Sacreds | 178 |
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Current Approaches in the Cognitive Science of Religion Ilkka Pyysiainen,Veikko Anttonen No preview available - 2002 |