Conceptual Complexities of Religion and the Secular: Silent Normative Claims among Contemporary Sociologists of Religion KU Leuven
While the field of theology has often been challenged in that it carries a preconceived normative perspective to the study of religion, it has been widely assumed that the sociology of religion is better suited to investigate religious vitality since it operates from a scientific and value-free perspective. This project challenges this binary and instead claims that the sociology of religion carries silent normative claims as well. These ...