
	Philosophy and Culture Reference: Kirsberg, I. V. Religious Studies: from Study to Science? // Philosophy and Culture. 2011. № 12. P. 84-94. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59008 Kirsberg, I. V. Religious Studies: from Study to Science? Abstract: Based on religious studies, the author of the article criticizes modern post-positivistic demarcation of science and non-science and shows its potentials and advantages on the basis of the qualitative difference between values and knowledge. Peculiarities of values and knowledge as the two irreducible and interacting phenomena are described on the basis of ‘out of cognition’ and ‘cognitive’ acts of consciousness – feelings and reasoning. The author suggests new criteria for demarcation which depend on predominance of values or knowledge, as well as researches of irregularity, failure and perspectives of religious studies as a science (and theology as a study which is not related to mere knowledge). Keywords: philosophy, demarcation, theology, religious studies, values, knowledge, science, non-science, consciousness, phenomenology. This article is unavailable for unregistered users. Click to login or register References 1. Dudley G. Religion on Trial. Mircea Eliade and His Critics. Philadelphia: Temple Uni. Press, 1977. 2. Hof tsee W. Social Realit y and the Problem of Demarcation // Noch eine Chance fuer die Religionsphaenomenologie? Bern: Peterlang, 2001. 3. Lott E.J. Vision, Tradition, Interpretation. Theology, Religion and the Study of Religion. Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988. 4. Pannenberg W. Wissenschaftstheorie und Theologie. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1973. 5. Stolz F. Gruendzuege der Religionswissenschaft. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1988. 6. Waardenburg J. Religionen und Religion. Systematische Einfuehrung in die Religionswissenschaft. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1986. 7. Dekart R. Pervonachala filosofii. Soch. v 2-kh tt. T. 1. M.: Mysl', 1989. 8. Kirsberg I.V. Antisemitizm kak sposob issledovaniya? (V.V. Rozanov: predvoskhishcheniya bi-bleistiki XX v.) // Filosofiya i k ul'tura. 2009. № 4 (16). 9. Maksimov L.V. Kognitivizm kak paradigma gumanitarno-filosofskoy mysli. M.: ROSSPEN, 2003. 10. Shakhov M.O. Religioznoe i nauchnoe znanie, religioznaya i nauchnaya vera // Problema demar-katsii nauki i t eologii: sovremennyy vzglyad. M.: IF RAN, 2008. 11. Eliade M. Istoriya very i religioznykh idey. T. 1. Ot kamennogo veka do elevsinskikh miste-riy. M.: Kriterion, 2001

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Kirsberg, I. V. Religious Studies: from Study to Science?