Impasse and Resolution

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This book is the only Comprehensive Critique of the contemporary study of religion. It presents an overview and critical analysis of the study of religion in such diverse fields as the History of Religions, Phenomenology of Religion and Functionalism and provides a special chapter devoted to the problems of rationality and relativism in the Study of Religion. The final chapters defend structuralism as a resolution to the problem.

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Hans H. Penner

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«All scholars of religions and teachers of religious studies owe Penner a debt of gratitude for gathering into one place powerful critiques of some of the most popular approaches to the study of religion.» (Theodore M. Vial, The Journal of Religion)
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