I Have a Hunch

Author: McCutcheon Russell T.  

Publisher: Brill

ISSN: 1570-0682

Source: Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol.24, Iss.1, 2012-01, pp. : 81-92

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Abstract

Abstract Using the same arguments that, in the 1960s, were successfully employed to establish the institutionally autonomous, non-reductive study of religion (generally understood as the public, institutionalized expression of a private experience, belief, or faith), this essay argues for the urgent need to establish a phenomenology and a hermeneutics of hunches—posited here as being among the only truly cross-cultural dispositions shared by all human beings.