著者

植野 雄司

出版者

プール学院大学

雑誌

プール学院大学研究紀要 (ISSN:13426028)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.50, pp.71-83, 2010-12

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This article makes a critical examination of studies of religious phenomena from a reductionist point of view, in order to illuminate the methodological problems inherent in the academic study of religion in a Western context. This paper begins by investigating issues related to some of the classical theories of the origins of religion, discusses methodological problems in the reductionist social scientific study of religion, and concludes by presenting a line of thought different from the generally materialist view of the world commonly shared by anthropologists, represented by such studies labeled as humanistic anthropology.