RLG101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Religious Text
Document Summary
Max m ller argued that scholars of religion should make sacred texts their primary focus of study. Generations of scholars have assumed that the primary (and only) way of learning about a religious tradition is to look in detail at the texts that are used. Expectation that the scholar will find the essential" basics of the particular religion. View of texts as the basis of the study culture as high" (or elitist) culture. Distinguishes who uses them and many scholars who study religions. Max m ller suggests any study going beyond the texts risks straying into murky waters. The study of religion, culture and texts is not only the such great" texts. Looking at the idea of religion in culture in raymond williams" terms. Johnathan culler suggests the distinction between poetics (form, style, rhetoric), hermeneutics and responses how it presents itself" as a form of communication.
