Magic feathers, Wittgensteinian boxes and the politics of deeming |
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Authors: | Matthew Day |
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Affiliation: | Florida State University, United States |
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Abstract: | Religious Experience Reconsidered offers an “attribution theory of religion” which builds out from Emile Durkheim’s intuition that the sacred is just some aspect of the world that has been set apart. Despite this theoretical pedigree, however, the book violates the central Durkheimian insight when it goes on to ask whether some things are more likely to be set apart than others. I argue that this impulse is motivated by an unfortunate metaphysical desire to determine if some things really are special. Throwing my hat in with Durkheim, I maintain that the academic study of religion should rest content with analyzing the contested politics of “deeming” something special. |
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Keywords: | Ann Taves Emile Durkheim Ludwig Wittgenstein Pierre Bourdieu |
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