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    Comments on Egil Asprem and Ann Taves’s Essay (2018) "Explanation and the Study of Religion"
    Comments on Egil Asprem and Ann Taves’s Essay (2018) "Explanation and the Study of Religion"
    Comments on Egil Asprem and Ann Taves’s Essay (2018) "Explanation and the Study of Religion"
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    Comments on Egil Asprem and Ann Taves’s Essay (2018) "Explanation and the Study of Religion"

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    Professors Egil Asprem and Ann Taves publish “Explanation and the Study of Religion" in Method Today: Redescribing Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Brad Stottard (2018; Equinox Press, London; pages 133-157). They follow and update Wayne Proudfoot’s vision, presumably to take advantage of the “new” mechanistic studies in the arenas of literary and cultural inquiry, cognitive psychology and evolutionary-based biology.
    Similar models are found in "Comments on Wayne Proudfoot’s Book (1985) Religious Experience". In addition, modern science is the topic in "Comments on Jacques Maritain’s Book (1935) Natural Philosophy". These works complement Asprem and Taves’s essay and provide stepping-stones for this examination.

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    Release dateNov 10, 2018
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      Comments on Egil Asprem and Ann Taves’s Essay (2018) "Explanation and the Study of Religion" - Razie Mah

      Comments on Egil Asprem and Ann Taves’s Essay (2018) Explanation and the Study of Religion

      By Razie Mah

      Published for Smashwords.com

      2018

      Notes on Text

      This work comments on an essay appearing in Method Today: Re-describing Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Brad Stottard, and published in 2018 by Equinox Press (London).

      These comments rely on models developed in the suggested readings. These models begin with the category-based nested form and the triadic structure of judgment.

      Single quotes and italics are used to group words together.

      Prerequisites include A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form, A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction. Suggested readings include Comments on Wayne Proudfoot’s Book (1985) Religious Experience (CWPRE) and Comments on Jacques Maritain's Book (1935) Philosophy of Nature (CJMNP).

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Explanations in Theories of Religion

      Explanation in the Philosophy of Natural Science

      The News

      The First Encountered Model

      The Second Encountered Model

      Example

      Introduction

      0001 What is the nature of an explanation?

      What about methods?

      What should count as an adequate explanation?

      What is the uncritical meaning of the word theory, when it comes to religion?

      0002 The authors wrestle with dictionary definitions of theory before arriving at the next question.

      Are attempts to explain religious phenomena in non-religious terms legitimate?

      The answer is a qualified yes. The caveat? By non-religious, Asprem and Taves assume the principles and rules of the social and natural sciences.

      0003 Oh, the

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