RS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Inclusivism, Scientism, Androcentrism
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Focus on faith in reason & objectivity. Belief that it is possible to arrive at an ultimate truth. Open to different symbols and codes of meaning. Challenges individualism, scientism (i. e. science if objective), positivism. Engages the personal and social challenges objectivity. In relation to religious studies, there must be room for subjectivity and recognition of social location of both yourself and others. Exclusivism: claiming excusive validity to a truth-claim, and all others are wrong. Inclusivism: not denying the truth of other traditions, but full truth comes from a specific tradition/truth-claim. Pluralism: there are multiple truths that can exist together all religions are true; all religion are flawed (gandhi). Experience and articulations of the sacred apart from religious institutions and formal traditions. Need not be tied to a specific religious tradition. In relation to religious studies, looking at why people reject institutions and where they are the same or different from religiously devout people.
