Studying Religion and Trying Theological Applications

John Shook’s paper Are People Born to be Believers? raises many questions, for the scientific study of religion and for philosophy and theology. For reasons of convenience this response distinguishes in the target article between three quite different issues and deals with them separately: first iss...

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1. VerfasserIn: Oviedo Torró, Lluís 1958- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2017
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Jahr: 2017, Band: 29, Heft: 4/5, Seiten: 400-410
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Religion / Angeborene Ideen / Kognitive Religionswissenschaft / Theologie
RelBib Classification:AA Religionswissenschaft
AE Religionspsychologie
FA Theologie
weitere Schlagwörter:B innatness cognitive science of religion epistemology science and theology
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Zusammenfassung:John Shook’s paper Are People Born to be Believers? raises many questions, for the scientific study of religion and for philosophy and theology. For reasons of convenience this response distinguishes in the target article between three quite different issues and deals with them separately: first issue concerns the supposed innateness of religious beliefs, or some precursor of them; second, the possible theological application that such thesis could entail; and third, a more general and methodological issue, concerns the feasibility of a scientific knowledge about religion that can be disentangled from other sources of religious insight
ISSN:1570-0682
Bezug:Kommentar zu "Are People Born to be Believers, or are Gods Born to be Believed? (2017)"
Kommentar in "Reply to Commentaries on “Are People Born to be Believers, or are Gods Born to be Believed?” (2017)"
Enthält:In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341401