Drawing significantly on the work of Emile Durkheim and Claude L vi-Strauss, this book proposes a way to navigate between two pitfalls that undermine comprehension of alien cultures and their sacred literature.
First, it offers a vigorous defense of the principle of charity when interpreting religious texts.
But this, then, must confront the oddity, even deep implausibility, of many religious claims.
The way out of this dilemma takes seriously Durkheim's seminal hypothesis that religious be.
Gcrr Press Reading sacred texts: charity, structure, gospel, paperback/evan fales
