SCAR 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Historical Criticism, Chandogya Upanishad, Kshatriya
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The historical-descriptive presentation of religious data accompanied by the interpretation of the data presented. Informs us of potential religious patterns in human societies. An introduction to historical methodology in study of religion. Find historical truth on contested subjects in academic study of religion. Free the study of religion from the dominance of a prior theological and philosophical speculation. Historical vs phenomenological approach to study of religion. Both are descriptive approaches, accompanied by later analysis. Not merely a time travel to the past. A product of enlightenment and western modernity. Attempting to study changes through historical documents and records. Historical criticism was not initially regarded an anti-christian or anti-jewish movement. Later christian and jewish objections and suspicions of historical criticism. Academic research and reaction of religious communities. Religions maintain their links to their origin through tradition, i. e. , that which is passed on. Tradition begins in a specific time and place and constantly changes over time.
