What Constitutes a Scientific Interpretation of Religion?
After noting the limitations of behaviorism, the inescapable conditions of precision in scientific method in general are considered. A greater or less amount of abstraction is essential. Science thus conventionalizes experience, aiming at universal factors. Religion, as experienced, however, possess...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
1926
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The journal of religion
Year: 1926, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 225-235 |
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| Summary: | After noting the limitations of behaviorism, the inescapable conditions of precision in scientific method in general are considered. A greater or less amount of abstraction is essential. Science thus conventionalizes experience, aiming at universal factors. Religion, as experienced, however, possesses individual and emotional elements which science finds it difficult to standardize. There is an overplus in any scientist's experience which never finds expression in his science. The recognition of personal selves is as important as the classification of what is common to all selves. Unless psychology as a science takes account of the reality of personal selves, it may be questioned whether science is competent really to interpret religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1549-6538 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/480577 |