HUMANISTIC VERSUS SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO RELIGION |
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| Authors: | Aruind Sharma |
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| Institution: | Arvind Sharma is Professor of Comparative Religion in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, 3520 University Street, Montreal, PQ H3A 2A7, Canada. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. Whereas Robert Segal (1990) identified seven misconceptions of the social sciences that he thinks scholars in religious studies make, this response argues that each of the alleged misconceptions involves the "oversight" of key distinctions that radically alter the complexion of Segal's case. |
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| Keywords: | belief faith falsification and verification phenomenology of religion |
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