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020			_a9783034302685
035			_aFRCYB88844500
040			_aFR-PaCSA _ben _c _erda
100	1		_aGothóni, René
245	0	1	_aWords Matter _bHermeneutics in the Study of Religions _c['Gothóni, René']
264		1	_bPeter Lang _c2011
300			_a p.
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700	0		_aGothóni, René
856	4	0	_2Cyberlibris _uhttps://international.scholarvox.com/netsen/book/88844500 _qtext/html _a
520			_aThe challenge of methodic quality has haunted scholars in the human and social sciences since the end of the nineteenth century with the explosive and public success of the natural sciences and their precision and aim of controlling nature. The discussion has been dominated by the quest for proper scientific concepts and methods comparable to those employed in the natural sciences. This book discloses the limits of scientific concepts and methods, and the failure of approaches in the human sciences emulating the scientific procedures in the natural sciences, notably the cognitive science of religion, to articulate religious life in its actuality. The author demonstrates on the basis of his own field research conducted among Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka and Orthodox monks and pilgrims on the Holy Mountain of Athos in Greece how preconceptions and historical belongingness determine interpretation. He argues that in the human sciences words matter more than concepts and propositions, and elucidates how words are revelatory of the authenticity of being, when the attitude adopted is that the view of the encountered other might be right. In the conclusion the author identifies the methodic characteristics of hermeneutic reflection and proposes an analytic model for the human sciences that enables scholars to articulate the authenticity of actual life in words that reach the other.
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