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- Aesthetics and Analysis in Writing on Religion: Modern Fascinations
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring 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. He shows that successful writers on religion employ characteristic aesthetic strategies in communicating their visions of human truths. Gold examines these strategies with regard to epistemology and to the study of religion as a collective endeavor.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- PART ONE: Ambivalent Feelings
- pp. 11-14
- 2. Finding Middle Grounds
- pp. 23-42
- 3. A Creative Process
- pp. 47-55
- 4. Other Scholars’ UFOs
- pp. 56-68
- 5. The Religiohistorical Sublime
- pp. 69-92
- PART THREE: Two Truths
- pp. 93-96
- 7. Aesthetic Objects and Objective Knowledge
- pp. 113-124
- PART FOUR: Working Together
- pp. 125-130
- Afterword: The Future of Modern Dilemmas
- pp. 229-238
- Frequently Cited Sources
- pp. 287-296
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520929517
Related ISBN(s)
9780520236134
MARC Record
OCLC
52996026
Pages
314
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No