Religion and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 10, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521803687
Subjects: Philosophy of religion; Religious experience; Religious aspects; Philosophy; Religion - Socialissues; Religion; General; Religion / General; Religion--Philosophy--Methodology; Methodology; Hermeneutics
First sentence: Since Paul Ricoeur's book, Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation, it has been commonly understood that if we want to understand religious concepts we have to choose between two distinct modes of interpreting religion in religious studies: the hermeneutics of recollection or the hermeneutics of suspicion.