The Western Epistemic Tradition and the Scientific Study of Religion - Donald Wiebe
The Deep History of the Scientific Study of Religious Thought and Behaviour
The Western Epistemic Tradition and the Scientific Study of Religion - Donald Wiebe
Donald Wiebe [+]
University of Toronto
Donald Wiebe is Professor of Philosophy of Religion in Trinity College at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Religion and Truth: Towards and Alternative Paradigm for the Study of Religion (De Gruyter, 1981), The Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991), Beyond Legitimation: Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge (Palgrave Macmillan, 1994), The Politics of Religious Studies: The Continuing Conflict with Theology in the Academy (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999) and The Learned Practice of Religion in the Modern University (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Description
The ‘deep history’ of the cognitive capacities of the human mind will account for both the early mythic and religious modes of human thought, as well as for the social and cultural developments that led to the creation of a scientific mode of thought that made possible the scientific study of myth, magic, and religion.