Study of Religion - Quotes Flashcards
‘composed of a collection of intellectual interests’
Capps
‘cross-disciplinary field’
McCutcheon
reasons alternative religious institutions provide such intrigue for differing cultures
Wach
‘religion is conterminous with human life, (the) understanding of religion is of rather recent origin’
Capps
‘frontiers of our knowledge of foreign religions’
Wach
by mid-19th-cent ‘everything (had been) called into question, somewhere, by someone’
Eric Sharpe
‘he who knows one, knows none’
Max Müller
Emic/Etic
Kenneth Pike
‘to produce as faithfully as possible… the informant’s own descriptions or productions of sounds, behaviour, beliefs etc’
McCutcheon
‘no statement made by the scholar of religion is valid unless the religious believer could accept it as correct’
Cantwell Smith
‘to try to grasp the essence of such a phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology… is false’
Eliade
critical of ‘emic bias’
M.Harris
‘passive documenters of indigenous claims’
McCutcheon
‘7 Dimensions of Religion’
Smart
discipline must ‘recognise that it employs established rules of methods of enquiry to address…issues and to record responses’
Capps
