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- Title
Returning to the Empirical after the Discursive Turn?: A Response to Hubert Seiwert.
- Authors
Becker, Carmen
- Abstract
The empirical study of religion does not confine itself to the analysis of discourse, but also includes things "that discourses are about or that are not even conceptualised in the discourses under consideration" ([18] 2020, 216). In I The Order of Things, i Michel [6] (1981, 62-63) writes that "[societies of discourse] function to preserve or produce discourses, but in order to make them circulate in a closed space, distributing them only according to strict rules, and without the holders being dispossessed by this distribution." Returning to the list of claims about the empirical outlined above, from a discourse theory perspective, claim 1 (Empirical disciplines presuppose a reality independent of researchers) could be acceptable but is irrelevant. However, within the family of discourse theories, discourses are not simply thought of as a collection of linguistic products (texts) or linguistic elements united by a shared theme.
- Subjects
POSTSTRUCTURALISM; MOUNTAIN climate; DISCOURSE analysis; RELIGIOUS identity; SOCIAL reality
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft, 2021, Vol 29, Issue 2, p275
- ISSN
0943-8610
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zfr-2021-0026