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Sense and Senselessness in Religion: Reflections on Creation of the Sacred

โœ Scribed by Steven M. Wasserstrom

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
94 KB
Volume
30
Category
Article
ISSN
0048-721X

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โœฆ Synopsis

Creation of the Sacred posits that 'religion makes sense'. In so doing, it underestimates 'the negative'. Its emphasis on the scientific basis for tradition, here called 'scientistic traditionalism', underestimates the role of critique and the function of dissent in the dialectics of tradition-building. For this reason, it also cannot 'make sense' of monotheism, which, in its many traditions, positions itself in opposition to mere biological imperatives.

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