The Western Epistemic Tradition and the Scientific Study of Religion - Donald Wiebe

The Western Epistemic Tradition and the Scientific Study of Religion - Donald Wiebe

Crossing a Threshold in the Scholarly Study of Religion

The Western Epistemic Tradition and the Scientific Study of Religion - Donald Wiebe

Donald Wiebe [+-]
University of Toronto
Donald Wiebe is Professor of Philosophy of Religion in Trinity College at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Religion and Truth: Towards and Alternative Paradigm for the Study of Religion (De Gruyter, 1981), The Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991), Beyond Legitimation: Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge (Palgrave Macmillan, 1994), The Politics of Religious Studies: The Continuing Conflict with Theology in the Academy (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999) and The Learned Practice of Religion in the Modern University (Bloomsbury, 2019).

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What might be called ‘the early modern study of religion,’ grounded an attempt to create a coherent scientific field from ‘religious studies’ in Great Britain and Holland. It was not an entirely autonomous academic discipline, nor was it a fully scientific enterprise. Nevertheless, as one historian of the period put it, it gave that academic enterprise “an impulse, a shape, a terminology and a set of ideals” that made a genuinely scientific study of religion possible in the twentieth century.

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Wiebe, Donald. Crossing a Threshold in the Scholarly Study of Religion. The Western Epistemic Tradition and the Scientific Study of Religion. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 147-166 May 2023. ISBN 9781800502734. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=44010. Date accessed: 11 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.44010. May 2023

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