How to Keep It Real

被引:11
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作者
Day, Matthew [1 ]
机构
[1] Florida State Univ, Dept Relig, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
关键词
Bruno Latour; Martin Heidegger; methodological naturalism; extended cognition; RELIGION;
D O I
10.1163/157006810X531058
中图分类号
B9 [宗教];
学科分类号
010107 ;
摘要
Over the last decade or so, an enormous amount of energy has been spent arguing whether the religion category is a legitimate tool for academic inquiry. This essay begins with the assumption that there are other, more interesting projects to pursue than talking about "religion." By taking Bruno Latour's work in the field of science studies as a model of what interesting work in our field might look like, the article advocates an approach which abandons the search for what is really going on behind the exceptional beings, experiences and insights that the conventional study of "religion" emphasizes. Instead, it sketches a scholarly agenda whereby attention would be paid to the labor required to make the gods and spirits real actors in a collective.
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页码:272 / 282
页数:11
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