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- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- ISSN
- 2156-4795
Abstract
n ancy f rankenberry / d artmouth c ollege ne of the enduring questions in the study of religion is how to define the object of our study. i would like to offer a definition, as an open- o ing move in any discussion of religion, not because i think definitions settle anything by themselves, but because very different definitions of religion are at stake in contemporary debates in the academy, particularly in the hyphen- ated areas such as science and religion, or religion and politics, or religion and gender studies, and i think it is important to see how they are related. i will begin, then, with the definitional problem, which i will take as twofold and as susceptible to analysis along the lines of what we know from semantic holism. i will then turn to the work of d onald d avidson and r ichard r orty to show what d avidson contributes to the academic study of religion, when religion is defined as i do, and what r orty contributes to philosophy of religion as a scholarly pursuit and to the creation of a new spirituality as a private pursuit. I. Definitions i call the definitional
Journal
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press
Published: Sep 17, 2014