A Braided Approach to the Study of Religion
A Braided Approach to the Study of Religion
Gerardus van der Leeuw
This chapter presents van der Leeuw's braided methodological approach to the study of religion as one that casts a role for theology in the study of religion. It advocates incorporating theology as a critical, contested voice in the project of understanding religion. In his fluid and dynamic model, the disciplines of theology, phenomenology, and history of religions appear as distinct yet interdependent projects. They check and balance, compel and constrain, fund and correct one another. In the process, the relationships among the disciplines enact a dynamic, dialectical relationship between reason and experience that preserves moments of affirmation and critique as comprising a paradox which is generative of “religion”.
Keywords: van der Leeuw, theology, religion, dance, reason and experience, paradox
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