Browsing Det humanistiske fakultet (HF) by Journals "Method & Theory in the Study of Religion"

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    • Can Fictional Superhuman Agents have Mental States? 

      Levy, Gabriel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      According to Deborah Tollefsen, from the analytic perspective called “interpretivism”, there is a reasonable way in which groups can be said to have mental states. She bases her argument on the every-day use of language, ...

    • It is not magic, it is smith: Comparison in a study of Jewish theology 

      Krawcowicz, Barbara (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      In a search for a theoretical framework that would structure and orient a comparative analysis of diverse Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust, the author reached for J.Z. Smith’s discussions of comparative ...

    • The Prospects and Pitfalls of “Just-So” Storytelling in Evolutionary Accounts of Religion 

      Levy, Gabriel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      I discuss problems importing evolutionary language into the study of religion. It is not impossible to do, but it is difficult to carry out properly in practice. I suggest five criteria for scholarship in the study of ...

    • You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But You Can’t Make It Drink 

      Levy, Gabriel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      As I understand it, the central aim of the field of CSR is to reconcile (in the sense of “consilience”) methods and theories from the natural sciences with research on religion, which though defined in various ways, is ...