RELG 456 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Reductionism
23 Jan 2018
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Feminism and phenomenology - discuss the test 3. The social role of religion that stage one engaged - we reduced religion to its material manifestation; reduced to true and false. Basically cut off the life of the object - contrary to the insiders have to say. Eliad: anti-reductionism; able to circumscribe a classic scholarship (unique, irreducible) On the ground of anti-reductionism (is it incidental? social? political?) If you say it is political, you are being reductionist (problematic for feminism) Stage four: eliminate all divisions and boundaries. Related to asad: politics/feminism it"s not a sub-classic thought; it is integrated to the constitution of religious objects (should engage and critique) Eliade is making a universal principle of religion without taking account of experiences of particulars; political knowledge is not pure knowledge.
