Method Today - Redescribing Approaches to the Study of Religion - Brad Stoddard
20. Homo Interpretans
Method Today - Redescribing Approaches to the Study of Religion - Brad Stoddard
Jennifer Eyl [+]
Tufts University
Jennifer Eyl is an Associate Professor of Religion at Tufts University. Her work focuses on religions of the ancient Mediterranean and theory of religion.
Description
This chapter looks at Epicurean physics and ethics, nineteenth German Romanticism, and contemporary problems in criminal justice, to reflect on questions about interpretation, as raised by Kevin Shilbrack. I argue that interpretation is useful precisely where it overlaps with explanation.