The Scholarship of 'Cults' and the 'Cult' of Scholarship
The following pages will undertake a critique of the academic enterprise as it manifests in the study of new religious movements, although itis also, by implication, simultaneously a critique of secular scholarship more generally. My objections to new religion scholarship can be condensed to the obs...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Dharmaram College
1987
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Journal of Dharma
Année: 1987, Volume: 12, Numéro: 2, Pages: 96-107 |
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Résumé: | The following pages will undertake a critique of the academic enterprise as it manifests in the study of new religious movements, although itis also, by implication, simultaneously a critique of secular scholarship more generally. My objections to new religion scholarship can be condensed to the observation that most of the literature in the field-whatever its other merits-frequently has the effect of increasing the sense of thealienness and the otherness of alternative religious groups (thus inadvertently reinforcing rather than undermining popular "cult" stereotypes). Conversely, I want to make the case for a humanistic style of scholarship which, at least as a preliminary move, attempts to give one access to thelifeworld and to the deeper intentionality of the new religions. |
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ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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