Religion and Science: What Can Anthropology Offer?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eas-2017-0001" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eas-2017-0001</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eas-2017-0001" target="_blank" >10.1515/eas-2017-0001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Religion and Science: What Can Anthropology Offer?

Original language description

The article comments on the space between two extremes: pure science and blind belief. If religion is not susceptible to scientific proof because it is a belief in an invisible world inhabited by spirits who influence human existence on earth then science in its strictest sense is the opposite of religion because it is not based on any belief but solely on provable facts. However, the anthropology of science should be based on the pluralism of knowledge and the seeking of truth in different cultural settings around the world. Everything human, also science, is a social and cultural phenomenon. This means that rationality is not a preserve of the Western mind only and that without falling into the trap of postmodern excessive relativism, we should admit that rationality is not only universal but also not hierarchized evolutionistically or qualitatively by giving preference to its Western brand. Science thus ceases to be the only realm of rational knowledge. Religion in its turn is a kind of non-scientific knowledge.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ethnologia actualis

ISSN

1339-7877

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

8-13

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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