Interpreting Religion

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Religion is an indispensable term in denominating the subject matter of Religious Studies as well as Theology. Nevertheless, the term is far from unambiguous and remains highly controversial. This volume undertakes an intense interdisciplinary examination of a seminal text that scholars of religion agree helped spawn Religious Studies and modern Theology, namely Schleiermacher's Reden über die Religion.
The term religion is indispensable to the subject matter of both religious studies and theology. Many approaches attempt a reductive , essentialist, functionalist, or other type of unifying definition, but these approaches tend to rest on various, often controversial sets of presuppositions. Indeed, it seems impossible to overcome the vast plurality of understandings of religion as the academic fields that deal with religion splinter and proliferate, thereby inhibiting the rational treatment of a very important dimension of modern society. The present volume undertakes an intense interdisciplinary examination of a seminal modern text that religious scholars agree helped spawn religious studies and modern theology as we know it, namely Schleiermacher's Reden über die Religion, which lays out the most important and controversial themes under discussion by theologians and religious studies scholars: first, the significance of emotion for the understanding of religion; second, the role of imagination and religious utterances in religious belief; third, the importance of religion for the social world; and fourth, the political implications of religion.

Mit Beiträgen von:
Andreas Arndt, Thorsten Dietz, Andrew Dole, Thomas Erne, Volker Gerhardt, Wilhelm Gräb, Mathias Gutmann, Hans Joas, Jörg Lauster, Georg Northoff, Wayne Proudfoot, Thandeka, Theodore Vial

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Dietrich Korsch
Born 1949; Dr. theol.; was Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Passau and at Philipps University Marburg.

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