Buttering Bread on Both Sides

Response to Paul Kenny

in Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
Author: Patrick Hart 1
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1 University of Alberta
Online Publication Date:
08 Feb 2017
Volume/Issue:
Volume 29: Issue 1
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341385
Keywords:
Theory; method; philosophy; Willi Braun; Bruce Lincoln; Religious Studies Project
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This is a response to Paul Kenny’s “Colloquium Response: More ‘theory as explanation’ anyone?” It argues that both “theory-as-explanation” and “theory-as-critique” are alive and well in the study of religion.

Buttering Bread on Both Sides

Response to Paul Kenny

in Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
E-ISSN:
1570-0682
Print ISSN:
0943-3058
Publisher:
BRILL
Cover Method & Theory in the Study of Religion

References

BraunWilli BraunW.McCutcheonR.T. Introducing religion Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith London & Oakville Equinox Publishing Ltd 480 498

GadamerHans-George LingeDavid E. Philosophical Hermeneutics 1976 Berkeley University of California Press

HartPatrick Theory, method, and madness in religious studies Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 2016 28 1 3 25

KennyPaul Richard Colloquium response: More ‘theory as explanation’ anyone? Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 2017 29 1 89 94

LincolnBruce The critical study of religion The Religious Studies Project 2015 accessed 31 May 2016 url: http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/the-critical-study-of-religion/

McCutcheonRussell T. A modest proposal on method Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 2013 25 4-5 339 349

RosenzweigFranz CambridgeGlatzer N. Understanding the Sick and the Healthy 1999 MA Harvard University Press

SchilbrackKevin Theorizing religion and the role of philosophy Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 2016 28 1 35 38

SmithJonathan Z. McCutcheonR.T. The necessary lie: Duplicity in the disciplines Studying Religion: An Introduction 2007 London Equinox 74 80 2007

Information

Page Count:
95–99
Subjects:
General, Religious Studies
Copyright:
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands 2017

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