RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Edward Burnett Tylor, Religious Text, Scientific Method
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Study of religion began as an academic discipline in 19th c. What fueled this invention was centuries of exploration and discoveries. Dynamics that produced the discipline and the modes that we study religion began during the. Study of religion emerged from a very christian perspective and ways of thinking. Great concern with concept of reason, wanted to question the basis upon which religion was founded; not to just blindly accept claims of religion as true but to explore this truth". To explore whether claims of religion hold up to rationalization and reason. Tremendous interest in science and the scientific method of inquiry. Use this method of inquiry and apply it to examination of religion. During this time there was great confidence in scholars that they could examine religion from a distance with scientific objectivity. One of the major disciplines that emerged during the 19th c. was anthropology. Publication of darwin"s theories on the origin of species.
