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Aesthetics and analysis in writing on religion : modern fascinations / Daniel Gold.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gold, Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious literature--Authorship.
- Religious literature.
- Aesthetics--Religious aspects.
- Aesthetics.
- Religion--Methodology.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field. He shows that successful writers on religion employ characteristic aesthetic strategies in communicating their visions of human truths. Gold examines these strategies with regard to epistemology and to the study of religion as a collective endeavor.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Modern Dilemmas in Writing on Religion
- 1. Fascinated Scientists and Empathizing Theologians
- 2. Finding Middle Grounds
- 3. A Creative Process
- 4. Other Scholars' UFOs
- 5. The Religio-historical Sublime
- 6. Relating Stories about Religious Traditions
- 7. Aesthetic Objects and Objective Knowledge
- 8. Interpreting Anew and Alone: Vision and Succession in Dutch Phenomenology
- 9. Explaining Together: The Excitement of Diffusionist Ideas
- 10. Interpreting Together: The Cambridge Ritualists' Affair of the Intellect
- 11. Concepts of Collectivity and the Fabric of Religio-historical Knowledge
- Afterword: The Future of Modern Dilemmas
- Notes
- Frequently Cited Sources
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-295) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612759185
- 9781282759183
- 1282759183
- 9781597344531
- 1597344532
- 9780520929517
- 0520929519
- OCLC:
- 475929015
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