A Matter of Perspective? Disentangling the Emic−Etic Debate in the Scientific Study of Religion\s

This article introduces the emic–etic debate in the scientific study of religion\s and provides a frame for the special issue’s six articles on the topic. Departing from the broader debate’s early history in the 1960s, this article contextualizes the emic–etic debate and locates its point of entry into the scientific study of religion\s in the 1980s. This article argues that in the course of the debate the insider–outsider and emic–etic complexes have become entangled. In order to facilitate an understanding of the debate, this article maintains that the emic–etic debate in the scientific study of religion\s touches upon three central dimensions (existential–political, methodologi- cal, and epistemological). In order to move toward a clearer methodological and epis- temological framework, this article furthermore proposes an iterative model that locates insider–outsider at the level of observers and emic–etic at the level of categories.

Embodied Religion and Liberal Society: The Obstacle of De Facto Established Religion

Recent scholarship suggests that religion should be conceived in terms of embodied social practices as much as (if not more than) a set of systematic beliefs. Such accounts of religion, I will argue, raise problems that have not been adequately treated in current discussion of the role of religion in liberal society.

Essays on the philosophy of theism /

Spine title: The philosophy of theism.

The dial : a magazine for literature, philosophy, and religion

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The religious philosophy of Josiah Royce;

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Philosophy and religion; six lectures, delivered at Cambridge.

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Lowell lectures, on the application of metaphysical and ethical science to the evidence of religion;

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Sacred philosophy of the seasons; illustrating the perfections of God in the phenomena of the year.

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Philosophy of theism.

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Philosophy of theism, being the Gifford lectures delivered before the University of Edinburgh in 1895-96, second series,

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The volitional element in knowledge and belief; and other essays in philosophy and religion,

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The Dial: a magazine for literature, philosophy, and religion.

A reissue of the quarterly journal published July 1840-Apr. 1844 in Boston and edited by M. Fuller, R. W. Emerson, G. Ripley.