Rationality and the study of religion /
edited by Jeppe Sinding Jensen & Luther H. Martin.
- 1 online resource (viii, 221 pages)
Originally published: Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press, 1997, in series: Acta Jutlandiapproximately
Includes bibliographical references (pages [184]-202) and indexes.
Rationality and the study of religion : introduction -- Anti anti-rationalism : anthropology and the rationality of human acts -- Lévy-Bruhl, participation, and rationality -- East Asian rationality in the exploration of religion -- Religious models and problem solving : a cognitive perspective on the roles of rationality in comparative religion -- Rationality, social science and religion -- Social facts, metaphysics and rationality in the human sciences -- Rationality and evidence : the study of religion as a taxonomy of human natural history -- Rationalism and relativity in history of religions research -- Rationality in studying historical religions -- Dissolving rationality : the anti-science phenomenon and its implications for the study of religion.