Interpreting religion
Subtitle: the significance of Friedrich Schleiermacher's Reden über die Religion for religious studies and theology
By: edited by Dietrich Korsch and Amber L. Griffioen
Series: Religion in philosophy and theology -- 57; Religion in philosophy and theology -- 57.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9783161508530
Subjects: Doctrinal Theology; Congresses; Philosophical theology; Theological anthropology; Influence; History
Description: The term religion is indispensable to the subject matter of both religious studies and theology. Many approaches attempt a reductive, essentialist, functionalist, or other type of unifying definition, but these approaches tend to rest on various, often controversial sets of presuppositions. Indeed, it seems impossible to overcome the vast plurality of understandings of religion as the academic fields that deal with religion splinter and proliferate, thereby inhibiting the rational treatment of a very important dimension of modern society. The present volume undertakes an intense interdisciplinary examination of a seminal modern text that religious scholars agree helped spawn religious studies and modern theology as we know it, namely Schleiermacher's Reden über die Religion, which lays out the most important and controversial themes under discussion by theologians and religious studies scholars: first, the significance of emotion for the understanding of religion; second, the role of imagination and religious utterances in religious belief; third, the importance of religion for the social world; and fourth, the political implications of religion.
Notes: Proceedings of an international conference held in Marburg.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Faith :; title: a feeling borne by reason  -- Volker Gerhardt; title: Emotions between body and mind :; title: philosophy of emotion and Schleiermacher's concept of feeling  -- Thorsten Dietz; title: Schleiermacher's brain science :; title: a translation projecty  -- Thandeka; title: Brain and religion :; title: what are the neuronal and neuro-epistemic predispositions of religious belief?  -- Georg Northoff; title: Religion as feeling :; title: Schleiermacher's program as a task of theology  -- Jörg Lauster; title: Intuition and fantasy in "On religion"  -- Wayne Proudfoot; title: On the amphiboly of religious speech :; title: religion and philosophy in Schleiermacher's "On religion"  -- Andreas Arndt; title: Schleiermacher on music and religion :; title: the "sound" of Schleiermacher in  Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's music  -- Thomas Erne; title: Religion :; title: human nature and social nurture  -- Andrew Dole; title: Schleiermacher and the turn to experience in the study of religion  -- Hans Joas; title: Life and human life :; title: some methodological considerations on the relation of the hermeutic and scientific concept of life  -- Mathias Gutmann; title: Religion and politics :; title: Schleiermacher's Reden in the perspective of religious studies  -- Theodore Vial; title: Religion and politics :; title: the contribution of Schleiermacher's "Speeches on religion" in an ongoing debate :; title: a discussion with Ted Vial's paper -- Wilhelm Gräb.