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HUMANISTIC VERSUS SOCIAL‐SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO RELIGION
Author(s) -
Sharma Aruind
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1991.tb00907.x
Subject(s) - humanism , epistemology , sociology , key (lock) , psychology , social science , philosophy , theology , ecology , biology
Abstract. Whereas Robert Segal (1990) identified seven misconceptions of the social sciences that he thinks scholars in religious studies make, this response argues that each of the alleged misconceptions involves the “oversight” of key distinctions that radically alter the complexion of Segal's case.