In defence of ‘Religion’

E. H. Pyle

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In defence of ‘Religion’

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E. H. Pyle

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Senior Lecturer in the Principles of Religion, University of Glasgow

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Is the term ‘religion’ otiose or misleading? Is what is commonly understood to be religion the enemy of faith? Can the study of religion be upheld as a discipline of academic respectability? The interrelation of these questions is close, and not without complexity.

Type: Research Article
Information: Religious Studies , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , October 1967 , pp. 347 - 353

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500002948 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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^{page 347 note 1} The Meaning and End of Religion (New York. Macmillan, 1963).

^{page 347 note 2} Religious Studies, vol. I, no. 2, pp. 251f.

^{page 347 note 3} Mentor Books, New American Library, 1964.

^{page 347 note 4} Op. cit. Mentor edition, p. 175.

^{page 347 note 5} Ibid. p. 336, n 1.

^{page 347 note 6} Ibid. pp. 47f.

^{page 348 note 1} Op. cit. Mentor edition, p. 116.

^{page 348 note 2} Ibid. p. 122.

^{page 348 note 3} Ibid. p. 132.

^{page 348 note 4} Religion: Problems of Definition and Explanation in Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion ed. Banton, M. (Tavistock Publications, 1966), p. 86.Google Scholar

^{page 349 note 1} Smith, W. Cantwellop. cit. p. 145.Google Scholar

^{page 349 note 2} Ibid. p. 154.

^{page 349 note 3} Ibid. p. 172.

^{page 349 note 4} For a more detailed criticism of W. C. Smith's book, see review by Bolle, K. W. in Journal of Religion XLIV (1964), pp. 170ff.CrossRef Google Scholar

^{page 349 note 5} Religion, Society and the Individual (New York. 1957 Macmillan,), pp. 6ff.

^{page 349 note 6} ‘Religion: Problems of Definition and Explanation’, Loc. cit. p. 96. In the same volume, see also Geertz, C.: Religion as a Cultural System, p. 1.Google Scholar

^{page 350 note 1} Terms used by G. Ryle in regard to the formulae of physical theory in which ‘secondary qualities’ do not appear. Dilemmas (C.U.P. 1954) p. 83.

^{page 350 note 2} E.g. Lewis, H. D. in Our Experience of God (Allen and Unwin, 1959), p. 68.Google Scholar

^{page 350 note 3} On Selfhood and Godhood (Allen, and Unwin, , 1957), pp. 248ff.Google Scholar

^{page 350 note 4} Revelation and Religion (Nisbet, 1954). See also Langford's, T. A.discussion of what is involved here, Religious Studies vol. 1, no. 29, pp. 238ff.Google Scholar

^{page 351 note 1} Religion and Coming of Age in The Honest to God Debate (S.C.M., 1963), p. 210.

^{page 351 note 2} Christ in Modern Athens (Leiden. Brill, E. J., 1956).Google Scholar

^{page 351 note 3} Op. cit. p. 94.

^{page 351 note 4} Ibid. p. 95.

^{page 352 note 1} ‘Methodological Remarks on the Study of Religious Symbolism’ in Eliade, M. and Kitagawa, J. M. ed. The History of Religions, pp. 88 f.Google Scholar

^{page 352 note 2} Société d'Editions d'Enseignement (Paris, 1957).

^{page 352 note 3} ‘Phenomenology of Religion and Philosophy of Religion’ in Eliade, and Kitagawa, ed., op. cit. p. 81.Google Scholar

^{page 352 note 4} The Meaning of Religion (The Hague. Nijhoff, 1960).

^{page 352 note 5} Op. cit. p. 2.

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