Sentences with phrase «science of religions»

If she will abandon metaphysics and deduction for criticism and induction, and frankly transform herself from theology into science of religions, she can make herself enormously useful.

No accident that a doddering, Freudian professor The Future trots out as their guru posits, essentially, the cognitive science of religion in the mind - body dualism.

Despite its age, the liberal Protestant metanarrative continues to influence not only religious studies but also, as Milbank shows, the social sciences of religion.

I do not see why a critical Science of Religions of this sort might not eventually command as general a public adhesion as is commanded by a physical science.

Modern science of religion, analyzing the totality of the religions from their immediate living expressions in word, text, and art, shows us an entirely different perspective.

Your editorial espousing «the new science of religion» uses the words secularist and atheist as if they are synonyms (17...

I'm interested in the cognitive science of religion and would like to study purported divine - revelations, however it's quite difficult to pin people (especially pastors!)

But if theological aims can be disengaged from the science of religion as practiced by the discipline's founders, why can they not be disengaged from the work of Eliade and those whom Wiebe calls the discipline's betrayers?

«Here, unlike the concept familiar in the science of religion, myth means nothing other than the report by ardent enthusiasts of that which has befallen them.»

We have the beginnings of a «Science of Religions,» so - called; and if these lectures could ever be accounted a crumb - like contribution to such a science, I should be made very happy.

It calls its conclusions dogmatic theology, or philosophy of the absolute, as the case may be; it does not call them science of religions.

Yet as the science of optics has to be fed in the first instance, and continually verified later, by facts experienced by seeing persons; so the science of religions would depend for its original material on facts of personal experience, and would have to square itself with personal experience through all its critical reconstructions.

The importance of Eastern meditation has gradually been recognized in the modern Western literature on the science of religion and elucidated in various technical studies.

In this manner we are brought to a more comprehensive and profound view of religion and the religions than was possible in past generations, particularly those of the Enlightenment and Romanticism, which advanced so far in the science of religion.

An attempt to show how we can envisage the study of religious symbolism in the perspective of the science of religions, and what the results of this procedure can be.

The problem with which one finds oneself confronted then, the same one which Duméry poses and which is actually the one which the science of religion faces today, is that of the organization of religious data in a coherent fashion.

Through the corporate efforts of various modern scientific disciplines such as philosophy, ethnology, prehistory and history, archeology, psychology, sociology, and philosophy, the methods of the science of religion have become increasingly broadened and refined.

That ancient saying, that awe is the beginning of philosophy, applies also to the science of religion.

Such is the final reduction which Professor Duméry proposes to give to the science of religions a really philosophical and rational status.

One of the most important tasks of the science of religion is to bring to light this unity of all religions.

I also acquainted myself with the professional literature of the science of religion concerning, especially, contemporary Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shintoism.

What psychology or semantics teaches us concerning the function of symbols is definitely of importance for the science of religions.

Were such a historical monograph possible, it would render a great service to the science of religions.