Religious Studies in the University: A Critical Reappraisal
| Autor: | Benjamin Ladner |
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| Rok vydání: | 1972 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Academy of Religion. :207-218 |
| ISSN: | 1477-4585 0002-7189 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jaarel/xl.2.207 |
| Popis: | a huge dream mansion, a kind of crazy skyscraper continually being added to in all directions, up, down, sideways, a fantastic superstructure of which the materials are theses, dissertations, courses in universities, library lists, articles in learned journals, works of criticism. The whole great building stands entirely on its own, belief in its own existence as an expert and specialized skill prohibiting it from any intercourse with other similar structures, the towers of other disciplines which also rise up in isolation all over the place, like ziggurats on the sandy plain of Babylon... we are quite familiar with closed worlds of this kind functioning efficiently on their own terms, producing plenty of resultsonly these results make sense only inside the system and bear no relation whatever to real life. . ... Maybe it's not a horrid accident but a logical conclusion of how we all think. ... . F r some while now the university has declared itself to have arrived at an im |
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