RLG100Y1 Lecture : Methods for the Study Religion; Presuppositions of the Western Traditions

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Methods for the study religion; presuppositions of the western. Most approaches (anthropological, sociological, psychological) shared a conviction that religion is a social and psychological phenomenon that can be analyzed scientifically using intellectual tools from the outside. From the mid 20th century onwards, scholars argued that one needs to give voice to communities of belief. And one needs to give voice in cultural descriptions to terms and concepts that are internal of the community. We need to work harder to understand the perspective of religious people from a scholarly standpoint. As scholars we need to look at what it is that religious people believed, perceived and understand than what we are seeing. Etic description one that describes in detail all the elements of something noting patterns, etc from the outside, aspiring to or claiming scientific objectivity. Aspires to represent faithfully of a practitioner of the religion.

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