The enigmatic relation between religion and science still presents a challenge to European societies and to ideas about what it means to be modern. This book argues that European secularism, rather than pushing back religious truth claims, in fact has been religiously productive itself. The institutional establishment of new disciplines in the nineteenth century, such as religious studies, anthropology, psychology, classical studies, and the study of various religious traditions, led to a professionalization of knowledge about religion that in turn attributed new meanings to religion. This attribution of meaning resulted in the emergence of new religious identities and practices. In a dynamic that is closely linked to this discursive change, the natural sciences adopted religious and metaphysical claims and integrated them in their framework of meaning, resulting in a special form of scientific religiosity that has gained much influence in the twentieth century. Applying methods that come from historical discourse analysis, the book demonstrates that religious semantics have been reconfigured in the secular sciences. Ultimately, the scientification of religion perpetuated religious truth claims under conditions of secularism.
Kocku von Stuckrad, Universität Groningen, Niederlande.
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The Scientification of Religion von Kocku von Stuckrad - mit der ISBN: 9781614518211
HIS000000 HISTORY / General; PHI000000 PHILOSOPHY / General; PHI004000 PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology; REL001000 RELIGION / Agnosticism; REL004000 RELIGION / Atheism; REL005000 RELIGION / Baha'i; REL017000 RELIGION / Comparative Religion; REL033000 RELIGION / History; REL060000 RELIGION / Shintoism; REL061000 RELIGION / Sikhism; SOC039000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion; Western esotericism; historical discourse analysis; religion and science; secularism, Online-Buchhandlung
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