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Steven Engler
Researcher at Mount Royal University
Publications - 72
Citations - 585
Steven Engler is an academic researcher from Mount Royal University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognitive science of religion & Agency (philosophy). The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 66 publications receiving 552 citations. Previous affiliations of Steven Engler include Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo & University of Bergen.
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The Routledge handbook of research methods in the study of religion
Michael Stausberg,Steven Engler +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Stausberg and Engler present a survey of content analysis, discourse analysis, and network analysis techniques for women's research in the field of field research, focusing on the following issues: 1) Methodological issues, 2) Free listing, 3) Field research: participant observation (Graham Harvey) and 4) Structured observation, and 5.
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Modern times: religion, consecration and the state in bourdieu
TL;DR: Bourdieu held that the state in modernity has become the primary agent of consecration, "the legitimation and naturalization of social difference", a function formerly performed largely by religion as discussed by the authors.
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Constructionism versus what
TL;DR: Constructionism has been portrayed as the other of religion's two realisms: theological and phenomenological, and it has been cast in the role of a conveniently discounted counter-position as mentioned in this paper.
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Ten Implications of Semantic Holism for Theories of Religion
Steven Engler,Mark Q. Gardiner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of semantic holism on theories of religion is discussed, and it is shown that such a view imposes metatheoretical constraints on the nature of such theories.
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Charting the map metaphor in theories of religion
Mark Q. Gardiner,Steven Engler +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the metaphor of the map metaphor in the theory of religion is discussed, with special reference to the work of J.Z. Smith and some of the problems raised by map metaphor (including its implicit reliance on a naive correspondence view of truth).