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Why do many people think religion is subjective? Or symbolic? Or non-rational? This book brings together eighteen important twentieth-century essaus on these questions, by authors ranging from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Richard Rorty and Clifford Geertz. The editors show that such questions are both quite modern and powerfully influential in our Western thinking about religious belief. Moreover, they lead directly into the three most popular theories that attempt to make sense of religion: positivism, functionalism, and relativism. Selecting essays that represent each of these three theoretical positions, Frankenberry and Penner trace their incoherence and argue for a new method and theory for understanding religious beliefs.
Rebecca J. Manring, Indiana University-Bloomington) Manring, Rebecca J. (Associate Professor of India Studies and Religious Studies, Associate Professor of India Studies and Religious Studies, MANRING, Manring
Stephen C. Berkwitz, Southwest Missouri State University) Berkwitz, Stephen C. (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Ronney Mourad, Dianne Guenin-Lelle, Albion College) Mourad, Ronney (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Albion College) Guenin-Lelle, Dianne (Professor of French, Professor of French
Pier Franco Beatrice, Italy) Franco Beatrice, Pier (Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Padua, Padua, Pier Franco Beatrice