The "insider/outsider problem" is a theoretical and methodological issue that confronts the student of human behaviour and culture. This anthology collects 30 readings, from such writers as Kant, Hume, Schleiermacher and Otto, to Ninian Smart, Mircea Eliade, Karen McCarthy-Brown and Wendy Doniger-O'Flaherty, that investigate the ways in which scholars of religion have grappled with the relations between studying, practising and advocating. Moving from influential readings in linguistics and anthropology, the volume's thematically arranged chapter introduce readers to the strengths and weaknesses of several popular options in addressing the insider/outsider problem.
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The insider/outsider problem in religious discourse has its impact at the academic level, rarely venturing into lay realms of belief and faith. The notion that someone can get inside another's belief system and speak with integrity about it exists in tension alongside the notion that only those within a tradition can speak for it. The debate rages on between etic and emic, reductionism and belief, anthropology and theology. These controversies continue, remarks editor McCutcheon (religion, SouthWest Missouri State Univ.), but re-creating the claims and counter-claims provides invaluable insight. Reprinting stellar essays from the likes of Kant, Geertz, Otto, and current scholars like Wendy O'Flaherty and Rosalind Shaw, this work covers religious experience, religious anthropology, reductionism, neutrality, and the scholarly voice. As McCutcheon notes, this text has no one use. Indeed, its application to religious studies seems nearly universal. Highly recommended.?Sandra Collins, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This is only a comment on Russell T. McCutcheon's "General Introduction" which I find to be an excellent piece of writing. Addressing the insider/outsider problem, McCutcheon articulates four positions which have been taken on the issue of understanding or explaining religious experience. McCutcheon's brief (10 pages) analysis of the methods and theories used to understand/explain religious experience from both an insider and an outsider perspective is crafted elegantly, like a tale, taking you along point by point convincingly showing the benefits (and liabilities) of each, and then producing a still more complex way of approaching the issue. This introduction is an excellent entré for serious students of religion who are exploring their own quests to understand what theories and methodologies they seek to employ for their further study of religion. It is written clearly and simply and raises a host of superb questions.
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