Ann Taves'sReligious Experience Reconsideredis a sign of a global apocalypse that will kill us all

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ID4959637
AuthorsFinbarr Curtis (Lafayette College, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume40
Issue4
Pages288-292
Publication date2010-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/j.religion.2010.09.003
OpenAlexW2095277697
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited18

According to Ann Taves, many humanist scholars of religion are afraid of science. In particular, they object to scientific reductionism because reductive explanations violate taboos that prohibit reducing religion to something else. This essay will analyze how Taves and other proponents of cognitive approaches to religious studies fashion a kind of secular praxis in which breaking taboos is a crucial attribute of scholarly integrity and intellectual heroism. I will argue that this equation between reason and profanation reproduces the discursive logic that legitimates the global expansion of a constellation of overlapping secular scientific, economic, political, and religious institutions

Epistemology · Humanism · Object (grammar) · Philosophy of religion · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Reductionism · Religious belief · Secularity · Sign (mathematics) · Sociology · Theology · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious studies

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