Intelligibility and Normativity in the Study of Religion

In his essay “The Devil in Mr. Jones,” J. Z. Smith issues a call. If religionists do not, he writes, “persist in the quest for intelligibility, there can be no human sciences, let alone, any place for the study of religion within them.” How should Smith's call be construed? In other words, what...

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Main Author: Ranganathan, Bharat (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2017]
In: Religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 8, Issue: 11, Pages: 1-14
Further subjects:B Description
B Comparison
B prescription
B J. Z. Smith
B John P. Reeder Jr
B Normativity
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