The Discourse on Primal Religion

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" The Discourse on Primal Religion "
David Atwood

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1077908
Doc. No	:	LA121537
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341363‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	David Atwood
Title & Author	:	The Discourse on Primal Religion [Article]\ David Atwood
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Method Theory in the Study of Religion
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	28/4-5
Page No	:	445–464
Abstract	:	This article presents a formalized way to distinguish different regimes of truth in the historiography of religion. By focusing on the nineteenth-century European discourse on the origins of humanity and its (primal) religion in Africa, I will show how narratives of the origin always oscillate between a scientific and a religious regime of truth. The article further outlines a possible method to formally differentiate between insider and outsider positions by redefining them as the assignment to a certain way of organizing a discourse or a semantic field according to a regime of truth. A discourse analysis and sociology of knowledge approach reveals possibilities to distinguish different constructions of insider perspectives by heuristically identifying codes, rarefactions, rules of formations, and regimes of truth.
Descriptor	:	Africa
Descriptor	:	discourse
Descriptor	:	Europe
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	history of science
Descriptor	:	religion
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341363‬