On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:14:39 -0000, Paul Harrison
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>Dear Duncan,
>
Here's a question to no one in particular - though Bon you may recognise
it - which has been bothering me (a little); is it possible within the
epistemological and methodological terms of social science to actually
study such phenomena as religious experience without explaining it away as
ideology or identity, or are the two 'language games' completely
antithetical to each other? Feel free not to answer...
>
>Yours,
>Paul
>
>Dr. Paul Harrison
>Department of Geography, University of Durham
>Science Laboratories, South Road
>Durham, DH1 3LE
>+44 (0)191 3341893
>
Hi Paul,
Ernesto Laclau talks about the naming of God and religious or mystical
experience from a discourse theory perspective in the following citation.
The ontological issue associated with studying religious experience is also
addressed in this reference. Discourse theory privileges the ontological
over the epistemological - which must be a good start in this debate.
Laclau, E. (1997). On the names of god. In Golding, S. (Ed.) The eight
technologies of otherness. (pp.253-264). London: Routledge.
Regards,
Peter Kitchenman
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Victoria University of Wellington
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