Explaining effervescence
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Explaining effervescence
Original language description
Chapter addresses the issue of what is involved in a naturalistic study of religion. It distinguishes between descriptive and explanatory research strategies. The first, descriptive approach is that characteristic of traditional ethnography. The anthropologist, on this view, has the task of observing and recording local patterns of human interaction, with a view to explaining their meaning. By way of contrast, an explanatory approach to religion is not only interested in general theories, it also tries to convert such theories into experimentally testable hypotheses. While recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, the authors argue that it is the explanatory approach that is best placed to dispel the mysteries of religious and, more particularly, ritual behaviour.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0048" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0048: Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
A New Science of Religion
ISBN
9780415635851
Number of pages of the result
22
Pages from-to
43-64
Number of pages of the book
222
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
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