Method Today - Redescribing Approaches to the Study of Religion - Brad Stoddard
21. Combining and Constituting
Method Today - Redescribing Approaches to the Study of Religion - Brad Stoddard
Mark Gardiner [+]
Mount Royal University
Mark Q. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. He is co-author (with Steven Engler) of In the Beginning was the Network; Semantic Holism and the Study of Religion (De Gruyter, forthcoming)
Steven Engler [+]
Mount Royal University
Steven Engler is professor of Religious Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. He teaches a variety of courses and research popular Catholicism, Umbanda, Kardecist Spiritism and related spirit-incorporation religions in Brazil, as well as theories and methodology in the study of religions.
Description
There is an ambiguity in Schilbrack’s discussion: should intentions and bodily movements be analyzed as separable components of actions or as parts of a unified whole? We point to problems with the former view and ask whether the latter is more useful.