More than belief, but not more than belief and desire

Manuel A. Vásquez' More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion paints a rich picture of what a 'non-reductive materialist framework for the study of religion' would look like. Although it receives strong motivation from the inability of the predominant meta-approaches of theori...

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Published inReligion (London. 1971) Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 617 - 624
Main Author Gardiner, Mark Q.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bergen Routledge 01.10.2012
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Davidson
Grounded theory
holism
Literary criticism
Materialism
Motivation
Philosophy
reductionism
Religion
Semantics
theory of religion
Vasquez, Manuel A
Vásquez
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Summary:Manuel A. Vásquez' More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion paints a rich picture of what a 'non-reductive materialist framework for the study of religion' would look like. Although it receives strong motivation from the inability of the predominant meta-approaches of theorizing religion to take seriously a range of materially grounded religious phenomena, it suffers somewhat from a lack of independent and autonomous argumentation. This article explores a convergence between Vásquez' main points and the basic elements of one of the most influential positions within philosophical semantics - namely the semantic holism of Donald Davidson. Because Davidson's holism (assuming its correctness) provides constraints on all forms of theorizing, the fact that Vásquez' position, unlike the ones he critiques, conforms to those constraints lends it a degree of rational presumption.
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ISSN:0048-721X
1096-1151
DOI:10.1080/0048721X.2012.705478