The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge: Some Methodological Questions

by Ninian Smart

Book Overview

Ambitiously undertaking to develop a strategy for making the study of religion "scientific," Ninian Smart tackles a set of interrelated issues that bear importantly on the status of religion as an academic discipline. He draws a clear distinction between studying religion and "doing theology," and considers how phenomenological method may be used in investigating objects of religious attitudes without presupposing the existence of God or gods. He...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691071918
• ISBN13: 9780691071916
• Release Date: December 1973
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.