Aug 2026· Method & Theory in the Study of Religion· 0 citations· 34 references
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Following Hanegraaff’s (2020: 73) claim that pioneers in our field considered it “to be no less than essential for any adequate understanding of the history of human culture and society as such,” this text answers Schilbrack’s (2013) question: “After we deconstruct ‘religion’, then what?” The answer is formulated within the debate over the diplomacy of common world face-to-face challenges of the Anthropocene. Within the functionalist tradition, uncertainty and lack of control defined the situation from which religion and magic ought to originate. They constitute the key characteristic of the Anthropocene as a specific historical condition, too. Their practical handling unleashes the full range of world-making activities and processes that shape ways of inhabiting the environment and thus provides an excellent point of analytical focus that can efficiently do without concepts of both religion and belief.
Summary: This paper explores Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough, advancing the working hypothesis that these reflections emerge at the intersection of three key ideas that Wittgenstein decisively resists. First, Wittgenstein challenges the assumption that language games can be analyzed independently of the...
This paper offers a reading of Plato’s Sophist centred on the image of the sophist as a “manifold beast” (226a6), described as “elusive to hunt down” (218d3). Far from being a mere metaphor, this characterisation plays a pivotal role in the dialogue’s dialectical development from both a methodological and an ontologica...
Federica Piangerelli· Studia Universitatis Babeș-B...· 0 citations
Since early modernity, thinkers have rejected much of the Christian metaphysical inheritance. Aristotelian substance, for example, was judged to be an empty concept serving little purpose; Locke believed it was empty and unknowable, that which “we know not what, … which we take to be the
substratum
, or support,...
The article argues that knowledge is shaped not only by objective regularities and formal logical possibilities but also by a wide range of factors external to theory – social, cultural, and ideological. The author claims that the conceptions of scientific method, rationality, and professional virtues of the scientist,...
Contemporary analytic philosophy abounds with invocations of something called ‘the world’ (or ‘reality’); but it is none too clear what is meant by ‘the world’ in those invocations. This book shows that in case after case—ranging from the metaphysics of magnitudes, through cognitive science, epistemology, and the phi...
This article explores the Ayoreo notion of dicoré, a spectral figure that inhabits the thresholds between human and non-human worlds and challenges the ontological regimes of presence that underlie Western metaphysics. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2012 and 2014 in the Tiogai village, the analysis c...
Leif Grünewald· Das Questões· 0 citations
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