Beyond Eclecticism
The Case for a Moderate Form of Cultural Relativism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12389977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mervyn F Bendle (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-26 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1050-8619 • E-ISSN: 1532-7582 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15327582ijpr0801_3 |
| OpenAlex | W1998774778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
The contention that all religious expressions are culturally specific phenomena that should be accepted as nonpathological is rejected in terms of a cultural-semiotic model of limited relativism that is able to recognize pathological behavior across cultures. Such an approach is able to critique a given culture's way of being at the same time that it accepts the embeddedness of all religious traditions in a deep- seated tradition
Cultural relativism · Eclecticism · Embeddedness · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Relativism · Semiotics · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Study and Philosophy of Religion
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2005 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |