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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Subject
- Special Issue: A Matter of Perspective? Disentangling the Emic–Etic Debate in the Scientifijic Study of Religion\s
- ISSN
- 0943-3058
- eISSN
- 1570-0682
- DOI
- 10.1163/15700682-12341363
- Publisher site
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Abstract
This article presents a formalized way to distinguish different regimes of truth in the historiography of religion. By focusing on the nineteenth-century European discourse on the origins of humanity and its (primal) religion in Africa, I will show how narratives of the origin always oscillate between a scientific and a religious regime of truth. The article further outlines a possible method to formally differentiate between insider and outsider positions by redefining them as the assignment to a certain way of organizing a discourse or a semantic field according to a regime of truth . A discourse analysis and sociology of knowledge approach reveals possibilities to distinguish different constructions of insider perspectives by heuristically identifying codes, rarefactions, rules of formations, and regimes of truth.
Journal
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion – Brill
Published: Nov 17, 2016
Keywords: history of science; religion; Africa; Europe; discourse