TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gold,Daniel
TI  - Aesthetics and analysis in writing on religion: modern fascinations 
SN  - 9780520929517
AV  - BL41 .G65 2003eb
U1  - 200/.7/2 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Religious literature
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Esthétique
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Méthodologie
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Education
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - fast
KW  - Humaniora
KW  - Religionsvidenskab
KW  - Teologi
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modern Dilemmas in Writing on Religion; Part One: Ambivalent Feelings; 1. Fascinated Scientists and Empathizing Theologians; 2. Finding Middle Grounds; Part Two: The Art of Writing on Religion; 3. A Creative Process; 4. Other Scholars' UFOs; 5. The Religiohistorical Sublime; Part Three: Two Truths; 6. Relating Stories about Religious Traditions; 7. Aesthetic Objects and Objective Knowledge; Part Four: Working Together; 8. Interpreting Anew and Alone: Vision and Succession in Dutch Phenomenology; 9. Explaining Together: The Excitement of Diffusionist Ideas
N2  - Addressing a fundamental dilemma in religious studies, this text explores the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion. Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field
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