TY - BOOK ID - 16833058 TI - Radical interpretation in religion PY - 2002 SN - 052101705X 0521816866 1107134668 0511030568 1280041994 9786610041992 0511178166 0511042663 0511148666 0511330456 0511613903 1280434287 0511045891 9780521017053 9780511042669 9780511030567 9780511613906 9780521816861 9780511045899 9780511148668 9780511178160 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Religion KW - Congresses KW - Congrè€s KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Religion - Congresses. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16833058 AB - This landmark interdisciplinary volume presents new methodological options for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. Ten distinguished scholars offer radical interpretations of religious belief and language from a variety of perspectives: anthropology of religion, ritual studies, cognitive psychology, semantics, post-analytic philosophy, history of religions, and philosophy of religion. For the first time, a collection of original essays explores the significance of Donald Davidson's 'radical interpretation', Robert Brandom's 'inferentialism', and Richard Rorty's pragmatism for issues in the study of religion. Related topics include cultural variations in belief from Madagascar to China, experimental research from cognitive science, and the semantics of myth, metaphor, mana and manna. Radical Interpretation in Religion will be of interest to both general readers and specialists seeking a deeper understanding of new directions in the study of religion. ER -