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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Gold, Daniel. Aesthetics and analysis in writing on religion. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2002151316 |
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Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel Gold |
ISBN: | 0520236130 9780520236134 0520236149 9780520236141 |
OCLC Number: | 928425647 |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 304 p.) |
Contents: | Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modern Dilemmas in Writing on Religion; Part One: Ambivalent Feelings; 1. Fascinated Scientists and Empathizing Theologians; 2. Finding Middle Grounds; Part Two: The Art of Writing on Religion; 3. A Creative Process; 4. Other Scholars' UFOs; 5. The Religiohistorical Sublime; Part Three: Two Truths; 6. Relating Stories about Religious Traditions; 7. Aesthetic Objects and Objective Knowledge; Part Four: Working Together; 8. Interpreting Anew and Alone: Vision and Succession in Dutch Phenomenology; 9. Explaining Together: The Excitement of Diffusionist Ideas. |
Responsibility: | Daniel Gold. |
Abstract:
Addressing a fundamental dilemma in religious studies, this text explores the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion. Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field.
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