Critique Of Religious Discourse

Author : Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300231458

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Critique of Religious Discourse by Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd Pdf

An important work of contemporary Islamic thought argues against the programmatic use of Islamic religious texts to support fundamentalist beliefs First published in Arabic in 1994, progressive Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd’s controversial essay argued that conventional fundamentalist interpretations of the Quran and other Islamic religious texts are ahistorical and misleading. Conservative religious leaders accused him of apostasy. Marking the first time a work by Abu Zayd is available in its entirety in any Western language, this English edition makes his erudite interpretation of classical Islamic thought accessible to a wider audience at a critical historical moment.

Author : Anastasia Karaflogka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317488903

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e-Religion by Anastasia Karaflogka Pdf

Religion has flourished in cyberspace, bringing individuals together, helping to consolidate fringe religions, promoting activism and evangelism, and providing sites for the promotion and examination of specific issues. 'E-Religion' is one of the first systematic scholarly studies of religion on the Web. Providing a clear outline of Web epistemology and theory, the book outlines the key methodologies for the study of e-religions. The book will be invaluable to students of religion, sociology and technology.

Author : Stephen Pihlaja
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108836135

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Analysing Religious Discourse by Stephen Pihlaja Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to all the major research approaches to religious language, from a variety of linguistic perspectives.

Author : Jay Johnston,Kocku von Stuckrad
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110472646

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Discourse Research and Religion by Jay Johnston,Kocku von Stuckrad Pdf

The discursive study of religion is a growing field that attracts increasing numbers of students and researchers from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds. This volume is the first systematic presentation of the research into religion and discourse. Written by experts from various disciplines, each chapter offers an integrative overview of theory, method, and contextual studies by focusing on a specific approach, interdisciplinary relationship, controversy, or theme in the field. Taking the discursive dimension in the production of knowledge seriously, the book also provides a critical analysis of academic practice and explores new forms of scholarly communication, including open peer-review. The collected volume will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students across a variety of disciplines, including religious studies, history of religion, sociology of religion, discourse studies, cultural studies, and area studies.

Author : Tyler T. Roberts
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231147521

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Encountering Religion by Tyler T. Roberts Pdf

Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon the conceptual opposition between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical "academic study of religion" and an ideological and authoritarian "religion," he argues, only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, Roberts calls on intellectuals to approach the field as a site of "encounter" and "response," illuminating the agency, creativity, and critical awareness of religious actors. To respond to religion is to ask what religious behaviors and representations mean to us in our individual worlds, and scholars must confront questions of possibility and becoming that arise from testing their beliefs, imperatives, and practices. Roberts refers to the work of Hent de Vries, Eric Santner, and Stanley Cavell, each of whom exemplifies encounter and response in their writings as they traverse philosophy and religion to expose secular thinking to religious thought and practice. This approach highlights the resources religious discourse can offer to a fundamental reorientation of critical thought. In humanistic criticism after secularism, the lines separating the creative, the pious, and the critical themselves become the subject of question and experimentation.

Author : H.E. Hofmeister
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400921450

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Truth and Belief by H.E. Hofmeister Pdf

The task of the following considerations is the elucidation of the relationship of religion to thought. Every philosophical investigation with this task proceeds under the expectation that it will take into account religious self-understanding. Herein lies the special difficulty of a philosophical theory of religion. On the one hand, the philosopher of religion may not assume this self-understanding in order to avoid offering a religious theory (a theology) instead of the philosophical theory expected from him. On the other hand, he cannot by-pass religious self-understanding because this is the key to insight into the uniqueness of religious discourse. Without knowledge of this uniqueness, it is impossible to indicate the conditions under which religious statements lead to the question of truth. Even if religion cannot prescribe to philosophical investigation, whose methods the latter must apply to examine its object, it may in addition require that the standard by which it is measured be suited to grasp those special characteristics which mark it as different from other realms of life. Therefore, it may be required of the philosophical interpretation, that the question of the legitimacy and validity of religious self-understanding be treated from the very beginning as an open one, and not as one already decided. If this question is rashly decided in the negative, then all analysis of religious propositions is necessarily done along the guidelines of a method that in its foundation masks of the religious thematic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004309180

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Making Religion by Anonim Pdf

Making Religion provides a unique overview of theoretical and practical aspects of the discursive study of religion. Leading scholars in the field discuss the opportunities and challenges of discourse analysis and its application in the study of religion.

Author : Noel Heather
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110930240

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Religious Language and Critical Discourse Analysis by Noel Heather Pdf

This book demonstrates the highly productive effects of applying contemporary views of discourse to religious language, seen (in theological terms) from a postliberal viewpoint. The emphasis is on critical discourse analysis (CDA), with its well-developed methodology for deconstructing the manifestations of power. What emerges is a combination of two complementary, surprisingly simple models which explain many aspects of the language used and witnessed by contemporary Christian believers. A wide variety of detailed, worked examples provide a very practical introduction to the revealing practice of understanding how discourse analysis responds to the question: - When language is used in a religious context, what's going on here?"

Author : Kai Nielsen
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004847971

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Contemporary Critiques of Religion by Kai Nielsen Pdf

Author : Russell T. McCutcheon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190282981

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Manufacturing Religion by Russell T. McCutcheon Pdf

In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are the History of Religions as a discipline; Mircea Eliade, one of the founders of the modern discipline; recent scholarship on Eliade's life and politics; contemporary textbooks on world religions; and the oft-repeated bromide that "religion" is a sui generis phenomenon. McCutcheon skillfully analyzes the ideological basis for and service of the sui generis argument, demonstrating that it has been used to constitute the field's object of study in a form that is ahistoric, apolitical, fetishized, and sacrosanct. As such, he charges, it has helped to create departments, jobs, and publication outlets for those who are comfortable with such a suspect construction, while establishing a disciplinary ethos of astounding theoretical naivete and a body of scholarship to match. Surveying the textbooks available for introductory courses in comparative religion, the author finds that they uniformly adopt the sui generis line and all that comes with it. As a result, he argues, they are not just uncritical (which helps keep them popular among the audiences for which they are intended, but badly disserve), but actively inhibit the emergence of critical perspectives and capacities. And on the geo-political scale, he contends, the study of religion as an ahistorical category participates in a larger system of political domination and economic and cultural imperialism.

Author : Jun'ichi Isomae
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004272682

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Religious Discourse in Modern Japan by Jun'ichi Isomae Pdf

Religious Discourse in Modern Japan explores the transportation of the Western concept of “religion” in in the modern era; the emergence of discourse on Shinto, philosophy, and Buddhism; and the evolution of the academic discipline of religious studies in Japan.

Author : J. Nixon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403980892

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Victorian Religious Discourse by J. Nixon Pdf

This collection of essays attempts to address the disparate historical and critical ways religion informs the literature and culture of nineteenth century England, showing how a representative group of major Victorians negotiated its impact. The collection attempts to present Victorian religious discourse not as monologic but as dialogic, if not protean. It seeks to make available new understandings of nineteenth-century British literature as well as to elucidate the extent to which religious discourse is vested in Victorian cultural thoughts and practice.

Author : Alan Bailey,Dan O'Brien
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400766150

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Hume's Critique of Religion: 'Sick Men's Dreams' by Alan Bailey,Dan O'Brien Pdf

In this volume, authors Alan Bailey and Dan O’Brien examine the full import of David Hume’s arguments and the context of the society in which his work came to fruition. They analyze the nuanced natured of Hume's philosophical discourse and provide an informed look into his position on the possible content and rational justification of religious belief. The authors first detail the pressures and forms of repression that confronted any 18th century thinker wishing to challenge publicly the truth of Christian theism. From there, they offer an overview of Hume's writings on religion, paying particular attention to the inter-relationships between the various works. They show that Hume's writings on religion are best seen as an artfully constructed web of irreligious argument that seeks to push forward a radical outlook, one that only emerges when the attention shifts from the individual sections of the web to its overall structure and context. Even though there is no explicit denial in any of Hume's published writings or private correspondence of the existence of God, the implications of his arguments often seem to point strongly towards atheism. David Hume was one of the leading British critics of Christianity and all forms of religion at a time when public utterances or published writings denying the truth of Christianity were liable to legal prosecution. His philosophical and historical writings offer a sustained and remarkably open critique of religion that is unmatched by any previous author writing in English. Yet, despite Hume’s widespread reputation amongst his contemporaries for extreme irreligion, the subtle and measured manner in which he presents his position means that it remains far from clear how radical his views actually were.

Author : Craig Martin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350246300

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Discourse and Ideology by Craig Martin Pdf

Drawing on poststructuralist approaches, Craig Martin outlines a theory of discourse, ideology, and domination that can be used by scholars and students to understand these central elements in the study of culture. The book shows how discourses are used to construct social institutions-often classist, sexist, or racist-and that those social institutions always entail a distribution of resources and capital in ways that capacitate some subject positions over others. Such asymmetrical power relations are often obscured by ideologies that offer demonstrably false accounts of why those asymmetries exist or persist. The author provides a method of reading in order to bring matters into relief, and the last chapter provides a case study that applies his theory and method to racist ideologies in the United States, which systematically function to discourage white Americans from sympathizing with poor African Americans, thereby contributing to reinforcing the latter's place at the bottom of a racial hierarchy that has always existed in the US.

Author : Marcus Moberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000530469

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Religion, Discourse, and Society by Marcus Moberg Pdf

This book focuses on the utility and application of discourse theory and discourse analysis in the sociological study of religious change. It presents an outline of what a ‘discursive sociology of religion’ looks like and brings scholarly attention to the role of language and discourse as a significant component in contemporary processes of religious change. Marcus Moberg addresses the concept of discourse and its main meta-theoretical underpinnings and discusses the relationship between discourse and ‘religion’ in light of previous research. The chapters explore key notions such as secularism and public religion as well as the ideational and discursive impact of individualism and market society on the contemporary Western religious field. In addition to providing scholars with a thorough understanding and appreciation of the analytic utility of discourse theory and analysis in the sociological study of religious change, the book offers a cohesive and systematized framework for actual empirical analysis.