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In the Intersection of Social
Sciences and Theology, a Research
Group turns into an Academic
Program
Isabel Corpas de Posada
Universidad de San Buenaventura, Bogot (Colombia)
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion
Atlanta, November 1st, 2010
RELIGION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES GROUP
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Once upon a time five blind men wanted to know how anelephant looked like. One of them touched its leg and said: It is
like a pillar of a temple. Another man, touching the tail, thought
the elephant was like a hose. The third one touched the
elephants belly and thought an elephant was like a great wall.
The fourth blind man, when he touched the ears, said: An
elephant is like a carpet. Similarly, the last one thought that the
elephant was like the moving branch of a tree because he was
touching its trunk. And they began to discuss who was right in the
perception of the elephant.
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The blind men of this well-known
Eastern parable describe the
elephant from their differentpoints of view or their where
from each one of them sees the
elephant. Just as the blind men,
different disciplinary approaches
for studying religion, as well as the
different approaches from each
discipline, assume different ways
of delimiting their object of study
and different methods for theirapproaches, given each ones
horizons and perspectives for
conducting the analyses and
interpretations of religion.
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The
purpose
of the paper
Interdisciplinary approach and different
discipline approaches of a research group
and academic program, its methodologies
and achievements for an interdisciplinary
study of religion as a fact
Point of departure
Remote and immediate backgrounds
of a Colombian Interdisciplinary
Group of Studies in Religion, Society
and Politics
An example of interdisciplinary
approach to religion
Next step
An Interdisciplinary research network
The paper registers
How a research group turned into a
Master Degree Program
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Remote and Immediate Backgrounds
An Example of Interdisciplinary Approach
to Religion
Different Disciplinary Approaches to
Religion
A Research Group turns into an Academic
ProgramOur next Step: An Interdisciplinary
Research Network
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Remote and Immediate Backgrounds
An Example of Interdisciplinary Approach
to Religion
Different Disciplinary Approaches to
Religion
A Research Group turns into an Academic
ProgramOur next Step: An Interdisciplinary
Research Network
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Kant(1724 - 1804)
Remote Backgrounds
The origins of the study of religions
Filosofa de la
religin
Tillich(1778 - 1831)
Schleiermacher(1768 - 1834)
Dogmtica (1821)
Crtica de la raznpuraCrtica de la razn
prctica
Hegel(1724 - 1804)
Curso sobrefilosofa de lareligin
The philosophers of religion
Feuerbach(1804 - 1872)
Marx(1818 - 1883)
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The study of religion as a fact
anthropological fact, sociological
fact, historical fact began with the
origins of the social studies by theend of 19th Century and the
beginnings of the 20th.
At this time, the descriptions of the
anthropologists, the explanations ofsociologists and new interpretations
of philosophers entered in the
academic stage moved by the
interest of western colonists in the
exotic cultures of faraway countries.
Anyhow, theology did not show up
in this debate.
Remote Backgrounds
The origins of the study of religions
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Edward Burnett Tylor
(1832 1917)
The founders of anthropology were
interested in the origins of religion
Cultura primitiva (1871)
James George Frazer
(1854 1941)
La rama dorada
Bronislaw Malinowski
(1884 1942)
Los argonautas del PacficoOccidental (1922)
Magia, ciencia, religin (1948)
Remeote Backgrounds
The origins of the study of religions
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Emile Durkheim
(1858 1917)
Las formaselementales de lavida religiosa (1912)
The founders of sociology were interested
in the function of religion
Remote Backgrounds
The origins of the study of religions
Marcel Mauss
(1872 1950)
Lo sagrado y lo profano
Max Weber(1864 1920)
La tica protestante y elespritu del capitalismo
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Rudolf Otto
(1869 - 1937)
First scholars of religious studies
Remote Backgrounds
The origins of the study of religions
William James
(1842 1910)
Las variedades de laexperiencia religiosa: estudiode la naturaleza humana
(1902)
Totem y tab (1913)Moiss y el monotesmo
(1939) Lo santo (1917)
Sigmund Freud
(1856 - 1939)
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Mircea Eliade
(1907 1986)
Tratado de historia de las
religiones (1949)Lo sagrado y lo profano(1956)Mito y realidad (1963)Historia de las creencias y de
las ideas religiosas (1967)
The founder of the comparative study of
religion
Remote Backgrounds
The origins of the study of religions
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Claude Lvi-Strauss
(1908 2009)
Las estructuraselementales del parentesco(1949)Tristes trpicos (1955)
Antropologa estructural(1958)El pensamiento salvaje
(1962)Totemismo hoy (1962)Mitolgicas 1: Lo crudo y
lo cocido (1964)
Contemporary anthropologists
Intermediate Backgrounds
The origins of the study of religions
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
(1902 1973)
Clifford Geertz
(1923 2006)
Las teoras de la religin
primitiva (1977)
La interpretacin
de las culturas(1973)
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Peter Berger
(n. 1929)
El dosel sagrado
Contemporary sociologists
The origins of the study of religions
Pierre Bourdieu
(1930-2002)
Gnesis yestructura delcampo religioso
Danile Hervieu-Lger
La religin, hilo de lamemoria
Intermediate Backgrounds
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Ana Mara Bidegain
Immediate Backgrounds
Michel De Certeau(1925 1986)
Emile Poulat(n. 1920)
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Immediate Backgrounds
Jean Pierre Bastian
Rodolfo De Roux
studies theexpansion ofprotestantism andpentecostalisms inLatin-America
Marcel Gauchet
(n. 1946)
Le dsenchantement dumonde. Une histoire politiquede la religion (1985)
member of CEHILA
historicalinterpretation ofRoman Catholicism
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Paul Ricoeur
(1913 2005)
studies
hermeneutics
of religious
language and
phenomenology
of the sacred Immediate Backgrounds
Raimon Pannikar
(1918 - 2010 )
Jacques Dupuis
(1923 - 2004)
Hans Kung
(n. 1928 )
Torres Queiruga
(n. 1940)
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Faustino Teixeira
(n. 1954)
Jos Mara Vigil
(n. 1946)
Miembros de la Asociacin Ecumnica de
Telogos y Telogas del Tercer Mundo ASETT
Immediate Backgrounds
Jos Mara Mardones
(n. 1940)
Juan Antonio Estrada(n. 1940)
Severino Croatto
(n. 1930)
Juan Martn Velasco(n. 1940)
Francisco Garca Bazn(n. 1940)
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The characteristics of the group echo
remote and immediate backgrounds:
European influences, politically involvedTheories about religion from North-
American authors in the social sciences
domain
Influences from Latin-American
theologians, politically involved
Backgrounds
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Remote and Immediate Backgrounds
An Example of Interdisciplinary Approach
to Religion
Different Disciplinary Approaches to
Religion
A Research Group turns into an Academic
ProgramOur next Step: An Interdisciplinary
Research Network
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An example of interdisciplinary Approach to Religion
Theological interpretation of religiousrecomposition in the contemporary process
of reenchantment or resacralization
Encuesta de permanencia y cambios de la
identidad poltica y religiosa en Bogot
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Remote and Immediate Backgrounds
An Example of Interdisciplinary Approach
to Religion
Different Disciplinary Approaches to
Religion
A Research Group turns into an Academic
ProgramOur next Step: An Interdisciplinary
Research Network
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a prefigurative and flexible
representation , one and universal, that
presupposing multiplicity of religious
tendencies and behaviors encloses thepossibility of setting up as a special object
of study.
a theoretical object of sufficient
ampleness and foundations which may
outline as the common ground where
religionreligious experiences as well as
religions can be studied: religious
experience as an irreducible human
experience such as the German scholars
(Kant, Hegel, Schelling) acknowledged and
religions as differentiated objects of
historical examination.
Francisco Garca Bazn
The object of the
study of religion as
a fact:
Interdisciplinary and Disciplinary Approaches to Religion
f h l l h f l
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the purpose of sociology of religion: to understand, explain, analyze, catalogue and
make expressive religious experiences, practices, beliefs and institutions
for the sociological approach of religion,
the purpose of antropology of religion: analysis of the evolution, functioning and
meaning of religious experiences, practices, beliefs and institutions
for the anthropological approach of religion,
its purpose, nowadays, is using social scientific methods for sudying the past,
emphasizing on the relationships of religionn and politicis, economics, culture, etc.
for the historical approach of religion,
philosophy approaches religion from the ontological, the ethical and the
anthropological perspective
for the philosophical approach of religion,
contextual hermeneutical theology following Gadamer, Schillebeeckx and
Colombian Alberto Parras proposal to approach texts in their context with a pretext
which defines the intentionality of the interpretation
for the theological approach of religion,
and for the psychological approach of religion?
Interdisciplinary and Disciplinary Approaches to Religion
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Remote and Immediate Backgrounds
An Example of Interdisciplinary Approach
to Religion
Different Disciplinary Approaches to
Religion
A Research Group turns into an Academic
ProgramOur next Step: An Interdisciplinary
Research Network
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A Research Group:
Grupo Interdisciplinario de
Estudios de Religin, Sociedad yPoltica, GIERSP
turns into an Academic
Program:
Maestra en Estudios del
Hecho Religioso
A Research Group turns into an Academic Program
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Remote and Immediate Backgrounds
An Example of Interdisciplinary Approach
to Religion
Different Disciplinary Approaches to
Religion
A Research Group turns into an Academic
ProgramOur next Step: An Interdisciplinary
Research Network
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Red Latinoamericana de Investigacin delHecho Religioso
Observatorio en Red de Universidades Catlicaspara el Estudio de la Diversidad Religiosa en
Amrica Latina
Proyecto sobre interculturalidad e interreligiosidad del
Centro Coordinador de la Investigacin de la Federacin
Internacional de Universidades Catlicas CCI-FIUC
Our next step
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Observatorio en Red de Universidades Catlicas para elEstudio de la Diversidad Religiosa en Amrica Latina
www.usbbog.edu.co/ohral
Our next step
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