Profane Theology
This response to William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon’s The Sacred Is The Profane argues that scholars of religious studies can self-identify as theologians (if they so choose), if “theology” is taken not as a discourse that reports on God’s nature or action or will, but as a discourse that determin...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
Publié: |
2015
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Année: 2015, Volume: 27, Numéro: 2, Pages: 104-115 |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
William Arnal
Russell McCutcheon
theology
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Volltext (Verlag) |
Résumé: | This response to William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon’s The Sacred Is The Profane argues that scholars of religious studies can self-identify as theologians (if they so choose), if “theology” is taken not as a discourse that reports on God’s nature or action or will, but as a discourse that determines what beliefs and actions might be justifiably inferred from a community’s authoritative texts and exemplars. Doing theology as a field of inference—as a series of if-then statements—is something that scholars can do regardless of religious confession (or lack thereof). |
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Description matérielle: | Online-Ressource |
ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
Contient: | In: Method & theory in the study of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341331 |