Tag: religious studies

• Assumptions, Questioned and Un-

  

  What counts as knowledge – that is, knowledge of reality? This is a question for the philosophers, in the end; but, as Gramsci said, everyone is a philosopher, so it’s a question for all of us. And while Gramsci’s point was that everyone has a philosophy, one they live by, some philosophers are better than…

  HAT

  June 17, 2021

  Read Me Project

  atheism, books, critical thinking, empiricism, epistemology, personal knowledge, philosophy, religious studies, science vs religion

• On Phenomenology

  Phenomenology seeks to explore that which is given to consciousness and in so doing to suspend judgements about subjective existence or non-existence of the objects of consciousness, or more specifically, to suspend judgement about the solutions to this problem posed in the history of philosophy.This suspension of judgement is the phenomenological reduction or “bracketing out”…

  HAT

  January 2, 2017

  Reading Out Loud

  Gavin Flood, methods, phenomenology, Quotations, religion, religious studies

• Authority

  One of the topics in Craig Martin’s Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion, which the students of “Introduction to Religion” are working their way through between a couple of weeks ago and the end of the week, is “authority.” Martin is careful to point out that authority, in the final analysis, is a relationship…

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  December 12, 2016

  Thinking Out Loud

  authority, language, religious studies, sociology