ACT AND INTERPRETATION: SUI GENERIS RELIGION, EXPERIENCE, ASCRIPTION, AND ART
ACT AND INTERPRETATION: SUI GENERIS RELIGION, EXPERIENCE, ASCRIPTION, AND ART
Author(s): Bryan RennieSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Romanian Assoc. for the History of Religions & Inst. for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy
Keywords: ttribution theory; sui generis discourse; fact and interpretation; religion and art; attention; apperception; valorization.
Summary/Abstract: This paper argues that Eliade can best be seen as a proponent of the recently named “attribution theory” rather than of the “sui generis discourse” on religion. The sui generis discourse itself can be seen as an example of attributing factuality to interpretation (and thereby artificially polarizing the academic study of religion). Comparing conceptually determined perceptions to certain cognitive phenomena it is suggested that religious art uses traditional forms to enable the apperception of “the sacred” in mundane experience and that such use of art is the mechanism by which religious traditions may enhance and tune experience in existentially valuable ways.
Journal: ARCHÆVS. Studies in the History of Religions
- Issue Year: XV/2011
- Issue No: 01+02
- Page Range: 51-74
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English
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