Andrew C Dole
Biographic Data
| ID | 1637155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew C Dole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew C |
| FAMILY NAME | Dole |
| SIGNATURE | DOLE A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5815-0376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Would integration with religious studies improve analytic theology
William Wood argues that analytic theology can be included as a part of the academic study of religion. He describes two types of benefits to this inclusion: benefits accruing to the study of religion on the one hand, and benefits accruing to analytic theology on the other. I find the first type of benefit that he describes to be real, but think that within the overall compass of the interests of the academic study of religion in Christian tradit…
Fanaticism
Religious beliefs and social practices
Working within the framework of a conception that makes social practices central to religion, I present an account of religious beliefs as beliefs that are targets of group-specific social practices organized around the norm that these beliefs are to be held. In addition to opening up new avenues of investigation regarding the ways religious adherents negotiate the expectations of their communities around issues of believing, the account generate…
The Oxford Handbook of Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher is now regarded as among the most influential figures in the history of Christian thought for his contributions to theology, philosophy, and theories and methods in religious studies. The German-language critical edition of his work beginning in 1980, Schleiermacher Kritische Gesamtausgabe, and English translations of key portions of his corpus beginning in the late nineteenth century, have allowed scholars to investigate…
Oxford Handbook of Friedrich Schleiermacher
The Vagueness of Religion
A concept is vague if it admits of borderline cases—cases in which it is not clear whether the concept applies. Thus vague concepts are concepts without sharp boundaries. I argue that religion is vague, and I draw conclusions from this claim for both framing up conceptions of religion and studying it. One result will be to undermine arguments to the effect that any account of religion that does not sharply demarcate the religious from the nonreli…
Why Study Religion? By Richard B. Miller
In this book, Richard Miller proposes what he calls Critical Humanism as a framework for the academic study of religion. The project has three main components: a description of the “identity crisis” that has characterized the field for the past half century, an engagement with six prominent approaches to the study of religion, and a detailed presentation of Critical Humanism through and in conversation with recent works in which its components ar…
Contra Penner, What’s Really Wrong with Functional Explanations
Reframing the Masters of Suspicion
This book revisits Paul Ricoeur's classification of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud as the "masters of suspicion", and provides a thought-provoking critique for critical religious studies scholars, as well as anyone working in critical theory more broadly. Whereas Ricoeur saw suspicion as a mode of interpretation, Andrew Dole argues that the method common to his "masters" is better understood as a mode of explanation. Dole repla…
Encountering Religion
Journal Article Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism after Secularism. By Tyler Roberts Get access Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism after Secularism. By Tyler Roberts. Columbia University Press, 2013. 300+xiii pages. $55.00. Andrew Dole Andrew Dole Amherst College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 82, Issu…
Is sceptical religion adequate as a religion
I argue that J. L. Schellenberg's sceptical religion faces two problems of religious adequacy. The first has to do with its relationship to the goal of bringing persons into proper alignment with an ultimate good; the second, with the desideratum of sceptical religion's becoming sufficiently well-established as to be a vehicle for the accomplishment of great things on the stage of history. I argue that actual sceptical religion would need to acco…
Rethinking Antisemitism in Nineteenth‐century France – By Julie Kalman
On ‘nothing to distinguish’ Schleiermacher and Otto
Responding to my claims in ‘Schleiermacher and Otto on religion’, A. D. Smith has argued that there is ‘nothing to distinguish’ Schleiermacher and Otto on the topics of the naturalistic explanation of religion and divine intervention in the natural order. There are respects in which Smith seems not to have understood my arguments, and his most significant challenge to my claims about Schleiermacher rests on a conflation of two different questions…
Liberal Values
Realizations
Schleiermacher on Religion
Since Schleiermacher’s lifetime there have been three prominent ‘school‐interpretations’ of his understanding of religion, each of which has misrepresented him in important ways. I briefly describe the contents of the three traditions of Schleiermacher‐interpretation before turning to a reconstruction of his understanding of religion. Schleiermacher described religion as a complex cultural and social process, grounded in a central feature or ‘ess…
Beyond Essence
Kierkegaard
Schleiermacher's Preaching, Dogmatics, and Biblical Criticism
Believing by Faith
Book Review| April 01 2009 Believing by Faith: An Essay in the Epistemology and Ethics of Religious Belief John Bishop. Believing by Faith: An Essay in the Epistemology and Ethics of Religious Belief. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. xii + 250 pp. Andrew Dole Andrew Dole Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 250–253. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-046 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
Schleiermacher on religion and the natural order
The Case of the Disappearing Discourse
Schleiermacher and Otto on religion
Rudolf Otto is often spoken of as continuing the tradition of reflection on the nature of religion inaugurated by Schleiermacher. I argue that, on the contrary, there are important differences between Schleiermacher's and Otto's accounts of religion. Otto opposed naturalistic analyses of religion which threatened Christianity's claims to truth, and saw Schleiermacher as providing insufficient resources for resisting such analyses. Otto's groundin…
Schleiermacher and Otto on religion
Rudolf Otto is often spoken of as continuing the tradition of reflection on the nature of religion inaugurated by Schleiermacher. I argue that, on the contrary, there are important differences between Schleiermacher's and Otto's accounts of religion. Otto opposed naturalistic analyses of religion which threatened Christianity's claims to truth, and saw Schleiermacher as providing insufficient resources for resisting such analyses. Otto's groundin…
The Case of the Disappearing Discourse
Beyond Essence
Kierkegaard
Schleiermacher's Preaching, Dogmatics, and Biblical Criticism
Believing by Faith
Book Review| April 01 2009 Believing by Faith: An Essay in the Epistemology and Ethics of Religious Belief John Bishop. Believing by Faith: An Essay in the Epistemology and Ethics of Religious Belief. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. xii + 250 pp. Andrew Dole Andrew Dole Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (2): 250–253. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-046 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
Schleiermacher on religion and the natural order
On ‘nothing to distinguish’ Schleiermacher and Otto
Responding to my claims in ‘Schleiermacher and Otto on religion’, A. D. Smith has argued that there is ‘nothing to distinguish’ Schleiermacher and Otto on the topics of the naturalistic explanation of religion and divine intervention in the natural order. There are respects in which Smith seems not to have understood my arguments, and his most significant challenge to my claims about Schleiermacher rests on a conflation of two different questions…
Liberal Values
Realizations
Schleiermacher on Religion
Since Schleiermacher’s lifetime there have been three prominent ‘school‐interpretations’ of his understanding of religion, each of which has misrepresented him in important ways. I briefly describe the contents of the three traditions of Schleiermacher‐interpretation before turning to a reconstruction of his understanding of religion. Schleiermacher described religion as a complex cultural and social process, grounded in a central feature or ‘ess…
Rethinking Antisemitism in Nineteenth‐century France – By Julie Kalman
Is sceptical religion adequate as a religion
I argue that J. L. Schellenberg's sceptical religion faces two problems of religious adequacy. The first has to do with its relationship to the goal of bringing persons into proper alignment with an ultimate good; the second, with the desideratum of sceptical religion's becoming sufficiently well-established as to be a vehicle for the accomplishment of great things on the stage of history. I argue that actual sceptical religion would need to acco…
Encountering Religion
Journal Article Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism after Secularism. By Tyler Roberts Get access Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism after Secularism. By Tyler Roberts. Columbia University Press, 2013. 300+xiii pages. $55.00. Andrew Dole Andrew Dole Amherst College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 82, Issu…
Contra Penner, What’s Really Wrong with Functional Explanations
Reframing the Masters of Suspicion
This book revisits Paul Ricoeur's classification of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud as the "masters of suspicion", and provides a thought-provoking critique for critical religious studies scholars, as well as anyone working in critical theory more broadly. Whereas Ricoeur saw suspicion as a mode of interpretation, Andrew Dole argues that the method common to his "masters" is better understood as a mode of explanation. Dole repla…
Why Study Religion? By Richard B. Miller
In this book, Richard Miller proposes what he calls Critical Humanism as a framework for the academic study of religion. The project has three main components: a description of the “identity crisis” that has characterized the field for the past half century, an engagement with six prominent approaches to the study of religion, and a detailed presentation of Critical Humanism through and in conversation with recent works in which its components ar…
The Oxford Handbook of Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher is now regarded as among the most influential figures in the history of Christian thought for his contributions to theology, philosophy, and theories and methods in religious studies. The German-language critical edition of his work beginning in 1980, Schleiermacher Kritische Gesamtausgabe, and English translations of key portions of his corpus beginning in the late nineteenth century, have allowed scholars to investigate…
Oxford Handbook of Friedrich Schleiermacher
The Vagueness of Religion
A concept is vague if it admits of borderline cases—cases in which it is not clear whether the concept applies. Thus vague concepts are concepts without sharp boundaries. I argue that religion is vague, and I draw conclusions from this claim for both framing up conceptions of religion and studying it. One result will be to undermine arguments to the effect that any account of religion that does not sharply demarcate the religious from the nonreli…
Fanaticism
Religious beliefs and social practices
Working within the framework of a conception that makes social practices central to religion, I present an account of religious beliefs as beliefs that are targets of group-specific social practices organized around the norm that these beliefs are to be held. In addition to opening up new avenues of investigation regarding the ways religious adherents negotiate the expectations of their communities around issues of believing, the account generate…
Would integration with religious studies improve analytic theology
William Wood argues that analytic theology can be included as a part of the academic study of religion. He describes two types of benefits to this inclusion: benefits accruing to the study of religion on the one hand, and benefits accruing to analytic theology on the other. I find the first type of benefit that he describes to be real, but think that within the overall compass of the interests of the academic study of religion in Christian tradit…
Philosophy (18 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (9 works) · Theology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (7 works) · Citation (6 works)