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| The Classification of Religions and Religious Classifications: a Genre Approach to the Origin of Religions | ||
| 作者 | Walser, Joseph (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Culture and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal |
| 卷期 | v.16 n.4 |
| 出版日期 | 2015 |
| 頁次 | 345 - 371 |
| 出版者 | Routledge |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.routledge.com/ |
| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Mikhail Bakhtin; new religious movements; religious categories; origin of religions; genre theory |
| 摘要 | Scholars have long worried over the fact that the categories of religion that they bring to their scholarship imperfectly match folk classifications of the ‘same’ religion. The more precisely we attempt to define a religion, the more our target seems to elude our grasp. Here, I argue that by looking at religions through the lens of genre theory, we can make more sense of both the range of classifications as well as the apparent uniformity assumed by scholars and practitioners at any given moment. Religious classes are nouns. The tack taken by a genre theory is to think of genres as verbs that are either performed by producers or distinguished by critics. When the emphasis shifts to actions and decisions made by individuals, we begin to address the variations and fluctuations that could not be accounted for when religious classes were understood as either objectively or analytically given. Moreover, when religious categories are simply taken as given, we have no way to talk about the origin of new categories (i.e. of new religions). Emphasising the verbal aspect of producing and of criticising allows us to explain the origins of religions as the efforts of producers and critics working in tandem. |
| ISSN | 14755610 (P); 14755629 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14755610.2015.1090465 |
| 點閱次數 | 111 |
| 建檔日期 | 2022.01.26 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.01.26 |
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