How to do comparative religion?
Subtitle: three ways, many goals
By: edited by René Gothóni
Contributors: Gothóni, René
Series: Religion and reason -- 44
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Religions -- Congresses; Phenomenology -- Congresses; Hermeneutics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Understanding religion; title: Introduction / Rene Gothoni; title: Major contributions of philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics to the study of religion / Douglas Allen; title: Phenonomenology of religion : between 'given' and constructed / Teuvo Laitila; title: Going, going, gone, or how i fail to gain hermeneutic understanding / Tom Sjoblom; title: Phenomenology as a preliminary method / Terhi Utriainen; title: Response / Douglas Allen; title: Explaining religion; title: Introduction / Ilkka Pyysininen; title: Beyond thick descriptions and interpretive sciences: explaining religious meaning / Donald Wiebe; title: The limits of explaining in religious studies / Nils G. Holm; title: Science/religion controversy, are the grounds of naturalism still valid for their confrontation? / Veikko Anttonen; title: Understanding the other / Renr Gothoni; title: Response / Donald Wiebe; title: Critical approaches in the comparative study of religion; title: Introduction / Tuula Sakaranaho; title: Methodology, tool or trap? : comments from a feminist perspective / Rita M. Gross; title: Research and sexual difference / Elisa Heinimski; title: When is methodology a trap? / Kimmo Ketola; title: Skyhooks and toeholds in the study of religion / Teemu Taira; title: Response / Rita M. Gross