The Social Construction of Reality (1966) Revisited: Epistemology and Theorizing in the Study of Religion
| Autor: | Markus Dressler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
060303 religions & theology
Reductionism Materiality (auditing) Cultural relativism 05 social sciences Religious studies 050801 communication & media studies 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Social constructionism Epistemology Scholarship 0508 media and communications History of religions Embodied cognition Sociology Social constructivism |
| Zdroj: | Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 31:120-151 |
| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/15700682-12341434 |
| Popis: | This paper takes the social constructivist approach, formulated by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, as a starting point for an investigation into epistemology and theorizing in the contemporary study of religion. It discusses various strands of scholarship in dialogue with social constructivism and questions in particular the reductionism of radical constructivist positions. Exploring the boundaries of the classical social constructivist paradigm, the article argues that students of religion should consider the implication of social, historical, embodied and material structures in the production of knowledge about religion. For that purpose, it draws on various soft realist approaches to stress the importance of remaining attentive to positionality (reflecting on the sites from where we theorize) and contextuality (reflecting on the inter-relation of discourse and materiality) in theorizing “religion”. Finally, the article suggests that soft realist positions can be integrated in a slightly broadened social constructivist framework for the study of religion. |
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