Publication details
Publisher: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Place: Wiesbaden
Year: 1975
Pages: 137-147
Series: Internationales Jahrbuch für Wissens- und Religionssoziologie
ISBN (Hardback): 9783531112572
Full citation:
, "Inherent conceptual limitations of the scientific method and scientific models for the study of religion", in: Beiträge zur Wissenssoziologie, Beiträge zur Religionssoziologie / Contributions to the sociology of knowledge contributions to the sociology of religion, Wiesbaden, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1975
Inherent conceptual limitations of the scientific method and scientific models for the study of religion
pp. 137-147
in: Peter Gross, Werner Stark, Bernhard Waldenfels, Enno Schwanenberg, John F. Miller, Samuel R. Friedman (eds), Beiträge zur Wissenssoziologie, Beiträge zur Religionssoziologie / Contributions to the sociology of knowledge contributions to the sociology of religion, Wiesbaden, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1975Abstract
In this paper1 I shall attempt to argue that there are inherent conceptual limitations of the scientific method and scientific models for the study of the basic phenomena of religion. It will be necessary, first, to state what I take to be the nature of science, and then to argue how its methodology is specifically inadequate to deal with the important facts of religion. To do this I shall begin by sketching the nature of science, drawing from such diverse philosophers and scientists as William James, Ernst Cassirer, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Ernest Nagel, Moritz Schlick, Philipp Frank, Henry Margenau, Carl Hempel, Henri Poincaré, Ernst Mach, and Stephen Toulmin, and others.
Cited authors
Cassirer Ernst
Schlick Moritz
Mach Ernst
James William
Einstein Albert
Toulmin Stephen
Margenau Henry
Frank Philipp
Poincaré Henri
Planck Max
Publication details
Publisher: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Place: Wiesbaden
Year: 1975
Pages: 137-147
Series: Internationales Jahrbuch für Wissens- und Religionssoziologie
ISBN (Hardback): 9783531112572
Full citation:
, "Inherent conceptual limitations of the scientific method and scientific models for the study of religion", in: Beiträge zur Wissenssoziologie, Beiträge zur Religionssoziologie / Contributions to the sociology of knowledge contributions to the sociology of religion, Wiesbaden, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1975