- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (7 Jan 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0304701785
- ISBN-13: 978-0304701780
- Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.9 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 830,802 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The "insider/outsider problem" is a theoretical and methodological issue that confronts the student of human behaviour and culture. This anthology collects 30 readings, from such writers as Kant, Hume, Schleiermacher and Otto, to Ninian Smart, Mircea Eliade, Karen McCarthy-Brown and Wendy Doniger-O'Flaherty, that investigate the ways in which scholars of religion have grappled with the relations between studying, practising and advocating. Moving from influential readings in linguistics and anthropology, the volume's thematically arranged chapter introduce readers to the strengths and weaknesses of several popular options in addressing the insider/outsider problem.
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The insider/outsider debate, is essentially concerned with the problematic nature of representation. 'Insider' refers to a religious believer, an 'outsider' being someone who observes the behaviour of someone else. This collection of papers raises important questions regarding the nature of representing religions, it asks whether anyone can really understand the religious experience of someone else; or whether religion is something that must be experienced to be understood, as argued by Otto who terms it the 'numinous'. More importantly the question of who has the authority and power to represent what a religion is/means is debated. There are no concrete answers given here, its more of a methodological workout. Although obviously there can be bias from both an 'Insider', or an 'Outsiders' account of religion which leads to the question of whether a religion and all its diversity be adequately be represented at all without recourse to reductionism and misleading generalisations.
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McCutcheon's "General Introduction" to The Insider/Outsider Problem
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This is only a comment on Russell T. McCutcheon's "General Introduction" which I find to be an excellent piece of writing. Addressing the insider/outsider problem, McCutcheon articulates four positions which have been taken on the issue of understanding or explaining religious experience. McCutcheon's brief (10 pages) analysis of the methods and theories used to understand/explain religious experience from both an insider and an outsider perspective is crafted elegantly, like a tale, taking you along point by point convincingly showing the benefits (and liabilities) of each, and then producing a still more complex way of approaching the issue. This introduction is an excellent entré for serious students of religion who are exploring their own quests to understand what theories and methodologies they seek to employ for their further study of religion. It is written clearly and simply and raises a host of superb questions.
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