Allure of Decadent Thinking: Religious Studies and the Challenge of Postmodernism

by Carl Olson

Carl Olson offers a compelling and provocative argument against the application of postmodern thought to religious studies, showing how such radically skeptical thinking undermines, subverts, and distorts the study of religion.

Religious studies is a newly and artificially constructed field for the scholarly study of religious narratives, thoughts, actions, and phenomena. It is an ongoing experiment with various types of methodological approaches...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199959838
• ISBN13: 9780199959839
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"