Nancy Frankenberry
Biographic Data
| ID | 1637049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Frankenberry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Frankenberry |
| SIGNATURE | FRANKENBERRY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Mind of Whitehead
Religion within the Limits of History Alone
Map is Not Territory, Menu is Not Meal
This article focuses on Jonathan Z. Smith’s 1978 essay, “Map is Not Territory,” in terms of its definition of religion, allegiance to anthropology and history, and avoidance of relativism. Updated to the author’s situation forty years later, it articulates the relation between map and territory as one of asymmetrical dependence governed by the rule that the concrete includes the abstract and exceeds it in value. Reading Smith’s essay in light of …
A Response to Martin and Wiebe
Journal Article A Response to Martin and Wiebe Get access Nancy Frankenberry Nancy Frankenberry * *Nancy Frankenberry, Department of Religion, Dartmouth College, 6036 Thornton Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 80, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 598–600, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lf…
There needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this’
Radical Interpretation in Religion
This landmark interdisciplinary volume presents new methodological options for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. Ten distinguished scholars offer radical interpretations of religious belief and language from a variety of perspectives: anthropology of religion, ritual studies, cognitive psychology, semantics, post-analytic philosophy, history of religions, and philosophy of religion. For the first time, a collection of original es…
On Empty Compliments and Deceptive Detours
The philosophical question Nunez raises is whether we can have, as he thinks we need, a theoretical grounding for appeal to the intrinsic value of nature. This article examines the neopragmatist reasons for repudiating metaphysical realism's notions of intrinsicality and subject‐independent reality. Following the holism of Donald Davidson and Richard Rorty rather than the epistemological premises of Holmes Rolston and Bernard Lonergan, the author…
Clifford Geertz's Long-Lasting Moods, Motivations, and Metaphysical Conceptions
Introduction
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History Making History
Some Problems in Process Theodicy
What good is divinity if it can come only in dreams and shadows...? (Wallace Stevens) It is a well-known and rarely challenged assumption that one of the chief merits of Whitehead's cosmology is that it enables religious thinkers to come at the problem of God in relation to the presence of evil in an entirely new way. Among the virtues most commonly appealed to in praise of the Whiteheadian theodicy are its emphasis on God's persuasive, rather th…
Some Problems in Process Theodicy
What good is divinity if it can come only in dreams and shadows...? (Wallace Stevens) It is a well-known and rarely challenged assumption that one of the chief merits of Whitehead's cosmology is that it enables religious thinkers to come at the problem of God in relation to the presence of evil in an entirely new way. Among the virtues most commonly appealed to in praise of the Whiteheadian theodicy are its emphasis on God's persuasive, rather th…
History Making History
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On Empty Compliments and Deceptive Detours
The philosophical question Nunez raises is whether we can have, as he thinks we need, a theoretical grounding for appeal to the intrinsic value of nature. This article examines the neopragmatist reasons for repudiating metaphysical realism's notions of intrinsicality and subject‐independent reality. Following the holism of Donald Davidson and Richard Rorty rather than the epistemological premises of Holmes Rolston and Bernard Lonergan, the author…
Clifford Geertz's Long-Lasting Moods, Motivations, and Metaphysical Conceptions
Radical Interpretation in Religion
This landmark interdisciplinary volume presents new methodological options for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. Ten distinguished scholars offer radical interpretations of religious belief and language from a variety of perspectives: anthropology of religion, ritual studies, cognitive psychology, semantics, post-analytic philosophy, history of religions, and philosophy of religion. For the first time, a collection of original es…
There needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this’
A Response to Martin and Wiebe
Journal Article A Response to Martin and Wiebe Get access Nancy Frankenberry Nancy Frankenberry * *Nancy Frankenberry, Department of Religion, Dartmouth College, 6036 Thornton Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 80, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 598–600, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lf…
Map is Not Territory, Menu is Not Meal
This article focuses on Jonathan Z. Smith’s 1978 essay, “Map is Not Territory,” in terms of its definition of religion, allegiance to anthropology and history, and avoidance of relativism. Updated to the author’s situation forty years later, it articulates the relation between map and territory as one of asymmetrical dependence governed by the rule that the concrete includes the abstract and exceeds it in value. Reading Smith’s essay in light of …
Religion within the Limits of History Alone
The Mind of Whitehead
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (3 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (3 works)