Burley, M orcid.org/0000-0002-7446-3564 (2018) Thickening description: Towards an expanded conception of philosophy of religion. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 83 (1). pp. 3-19. ISSN 0020-7047
Abstract
An increasingly common complaint about philosophy of religion — especially, though not exclusively, as it is pursued in the “analytic tradition” — is that its preoccupation with questions of rationality and justification in relation to “theism” has deflected attention from the diversity of forms that religious life takes. Among measures proposed for ameliorating this condition has been the deployment of “thick description” that facilitates more richly contextualized understandings of religious phenomena. Endorsing and elaborating this proposal, I provide an overview of different but related notions of thick description before turning to two specific examples, which illustrate the potential for engagement with ethnography to contribute to an expanded conception of philosophy of religion.
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Keywords: | thick description; expanding philosophy of religion; radical pluralism; ethnography; interdisciplinarity; animal sacrifice; buddhism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > Theology and Religious Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2016 10:14 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 22:18 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-016-9597-7 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11153-016-9597-7 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:108768 |