RLG210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Shape Shifters, Don Juan Matus, Hunnan District
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The difference between religion and other social science is that religion claims higher reality. The difficulty in ontology of religion is that, this absolute claims such as divine or transcendent can"t be studied through science. Because religion can"t limit its reality it causes difficulty in epistemology, so the difficulty in epistemology is through ontology. Faith statements: are not empirical and factual for science. The religious claims are only true within them but not for outsiders. The evidence or proofs for faith statements are internal to each particular religious tradition. The specific faith claims of one tradition are not to those believing in other tradition, nor to skeptics and atheists. There"s a rich history of one tradition criticizing another tradition. No other tradition have the proofs or claims to convince the other tradition. Parable of the two explorers and the garden. Social scientist must accordingly bracket the ontological claims of religion what berger calls.
