Pagan and Christian: Sociological Euhemerism Versus American Sociology of Religion
Human knowledge is such that understanding of religion is inevitably disconsolate and pagan—specifically , Euhemeristic. So it was with classical sociological interpretations of religion, for which sociological accounts were alternatives to realist accounts or religious self-images. In guise of brie...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1982
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1982, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 109-129 |
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| Summary: | Human knowledge is such that understanding of religion is inevitably disconsolate and pagan—specifically , Euhemeristic. So it was with classical sociological interpretations of religion, for which sociological accounts were alternatives to realist accounts or religious self-images. In guise of briefs for “detente” or against “reductionism,” American sociology of religion has converged upon a realist theory which reendorses religious self-images. Euhemeristic and realist accounts are compared in order to argue that realist theories of religion are not only bad general theories, they are actually anti-sociological theories. Realism has effectively impeded Euhemeristic accounts within American sociology of religion, although they are being given elsewhere. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710792 |
