Religion and the discourse on modernity
By: Paul-François Tremlett.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780826498236
Subjects: Religion -- Methodology; Phenomenology; Reductionism; Critical theory
Description: "The point of departure for this book is the debate about whether religious studies should privilege explanation or understanding. Engaging with contemporary scholarship in the field, Tremlett argues that the study of religions has always involved the conflation of facts and values and indeed has been structured in advance by the value-saturated discourse on disenchanted modernity. He argues that phenomenological and post-modern approaches to religions lack both theoretical and methodological coherence, and in their stead proposes a Marxist approach to religions that is at once empirical and informed by values pertaining to social justice, freedom and autonomy."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.