RADICAL INTERPRETATION IN RELIGION
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loginThis landmark interdisciplinary volume presents new methodolog-ical options for the study of religion in the twenty-first century.Ten distinguished scholars offer radical interpretations of religiousbelief and language from a variety of perspectives: anthropologyof 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 sig-nificance of Donald Davidson’s “radical interpretation,” RobertBrandom’s “inferentialism,” and Richard Rorty’s pragmatism forissues in the study of religion. Related topics include cultural vari-ations in belief from Madagascar to China, experimental researchfrom cognitive science, and the semantics of myth, metaphor, mana,and manna.Radical Interpretation in Religionwill be of interest to bothgeneral readers and specialists seeking a deeper understanding ofnew directions in the study of religion.
