More Than Belief A Materialist Theory of Religion

Name: More Than Belief A Materialist Theory of Religion
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ISBN: 9780195188547

ISBN-10: 0195188543

ISBN-13: 9780195188547

Edition: 2010

Authors: Manuel A. Vasquez

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Over the past several decades, postmodernist and postcolonial challenges to traditional theories and methods have revolutionized the social sciences. The discipline of religious studies, however, has been relatively slow to confront these developments, continuing to rely heavily on textual methods and a framework that privileges belief over practice, doctrine over performance, text over context, and inner emotion over public ritual. Recently, however, developments in social theory have begun to transform the study of religion. In this book, Manuel Vásquez maps out the dynamics of this paradigm shift, exploring systematically the epistemological and methodological challenges contemporary…

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List price: $48.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.21" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Introduction



Embodiment



The Rise of Foundational Dualism and the Eclipse of the Body



ï¿½Body Am I Entirely, and Nothing Elseï¿½: Non-Reductive Materialism and the Struggle against Dualism



Toward a Materialist Phenomenology of Religion



The Phenomenology of Embodiment and the Study of Religion



Religious Bodies as Social Artifacts



Holding Social Constructionism in Check: The Recovery of the Active, Lived Body



A Cultural Neurophenomenology of Religion: Enter the Embodied Mind



Practice



The Eclipse of Practice: Textualism at Large



ï¿½Ceci n'est pas un texteï¿½: From Textualism to Practice



Emplacement



Expanding the Conversation on Emplaced Religion



Mobility, Networks, and Ecology


By the Way of a Conclusion


Notes


References


Index