Is philology relevant?

The human sciences today all still exist as the effect of the breakup of the philological paradigm. The gains and losses of their emancipation from this paradigm can be discussed for each of them separately, but that will not be done here, for obvious reasons. Anyhow, as far as the history of religi...

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Published inScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 243 - 252
Main Author Thomassen, Einar
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Donner Institute 01.01.1999
Subjects
Criticism, Textual
Hermeneutics
Language and religion
Linguistics
Methodology
Philology
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Summary:The human sciences today all still exist as the effect of the breakup of the philological paradigm. The gains and losses of their emancipation from this paradigm can be discussed for each of them separately, but that will not be done here, for obvious reasons. Anyhow, as far as the history of religions is concerned, the philological paradigm continued to maintain itself more strongly than in other disciplines.  One major reason is that language and texts are generally conceived as playing a very great role in the study of religion. Religious ideas and sentiments are probably more difficult to translate than any other part of a culture, so in order to understand a religion from the agents' point of view you must get into their language.
ISSN:0582-3226
2343-4937
DOI:10.30674/scripta.67257