TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smart,Ninian
TI  - The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400868889
AV  - BL48 .S5923 
U1  - 200.1 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION / Comparative Religion
KW  - RELIGION / Essays
KW  - RELIGION / Reference
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Contents
N2  - Ambitiously undertaking to develop a strategy for making the study of religion ""scientific,"" Ninian Smart tackles a set of interrelated issues that bear importantly on the status of religion as an academic discipline. He draws a clear distinction between studying religion and ""doing theology,"" and considers how phenomenological method may be used in investigating objects of religious attitudes without presupposing the existence of God or gods. He goes on to criticize projectionist theories of religion (notably Berger's) and theories of rationality in both religion and anthropology. On th
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