Myths, models, and metaphors

Religion as model and the philosophy of science

Bibliographic Data

ID4372150
AuthorsBryan Rennie (Westminster College - Pennsylvania, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume39
Issue4
Pages340-347
Publication date2009-12-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/j.religion.2009.08.009
OpenAlexW2037853966
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited16

Clifford Geertz's widely-used paper ‘Religion as a Cultural System’, makes the claim that ‘the importance of religion lies in its capacity to serve . as a source of general, yet distinctive conceptions of the world, the self and the relations between them .dits model of aspectdand of rooted, no less distinctive ‘‘mental’’ dispositionsdits model for aspect’. However, apart from a highly critical article by Nancy Frankenberry and Hans Penner (1999) little attempt has been made to investigate this understanding of religion as model. This paper briefly considers the validity of Frankenberry and Penner's criticism and investigates possible applications of the elaborate analysis of models and metaphors in the philosophy of science since the time of Mary Hesse to the analysis of religious phenomena

Criticism · Epistemology · Mythology · Philosophy of science · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Evolution and Science Education · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Study and Philosophy of Religion

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