World Religions and World Orders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20475411 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen R L Clark (0000-0001-9201-9013, University of Liverpool, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-57 |
| Publication date | 1990-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religious Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4125 • E-ISSN: 1469-901X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034412500020199 |
| OpenAlex | W2144909343 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
There are good reasons for being suspicious of the very concept of ‘a religion’, let alone a ‘world religion’. It may be useful for a hospital administrator to know a patient's ‘religion’ – as Protestant or Church of England or Catholic or Buddhist – but such labels clearly do little more than identify the most suitable chaplain, and connote groupings in the vast and confusing region of ‘religious thought and practice’ that are of very different ranks. By any rational, genealogical taxonomy ‘Protestant’, ‘Anglican’, ‘Catholic’ connote species, genera or families within Christianity, which is in turn a taxon within the multivariant tradition traced back to Abraham. ‘Buddhism’ includes as many variants as would ‘Abrahamism’. Most Abrahamists, traditionally, have been theists, but it is difficult not to suspect that Marxist socialism is an atypical (and probably non-viable) variant which has inherited a linear view of time, a contest between the chosen agents of justice and the doomed powers-that-be, and the prospect of a future in which ‘there shall be no more sea’
Buddhism · Christianity · CONTEST · Criminology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Protestantism · Sociology · Suspect · Theism · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |