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Interpretativna znanost o kulturi i postliberalna teologija
Interpretative Science of Culture and Postliberal Theology

Author(s): Krešimir Šimić
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Hermeneutics
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: science of culture; interpretative science; Clifford Geertz; postliberal theology;reform;

Summary/Abstract: When its constitution was attempted in the second half of the nineteenth century, the science of culture (Culturology, L. White) was represented as a reform science. It was a reform in the sense of emancipation concerning metaphysics and theology, but also regarding social progress (E. B. Tylor). The science of culture, which has tried to establish itself as a cohesive place for all socio-humanistic sciences and become reform science, has eventually become the interpretative science (C. Geertz). Interpretative science of culture also has a reformative affinity. After reviewing the nineteenth-century science of culture (anthropology), the paper introduces the fundamental determinants of Geertz’s theory of culture and postliberal liberal theology, primarily based on Geertz. Finally, the paper reveals the reform potential of interpretative science of culture and postliberal theology.

  • Issue Year: 38/2018
  • Issue No: 04/152
  • Page Range: 793-814
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Croatian