تحويلي نگري در تعريف دين، از ديدگاه دين پژوهان معاصر غرب (مطالعه ي پنج نظريه پرداز موثر)

Reductionism in the Definition of Religion from the Viewpoint of Contemporary Religion Researches

Every part of knowledge has involved in reductionism. Also religious studies has involved in reductionism. This essay investigates the reductionism in defining of religion. Some of definitions of thinkers in different schools are investigated. Increasing intemperately non-Intellectual aspects of mystical experiences. Otto defined the holy by intuitive, phenomenological, psychological analytics of experiences of religion. So he canʹt attain a comprehensive definition for complexities of religion. Eliade developed the holy and contrasted it to the earthly, but he doesnʹt represent an integrated definition of religion. Hick found that it is impossible to get a common definition of religion, so he converted religion to religions and accounted current properties of religions. Wittgenstien doesnʹt consider religion as a regulated set. He pointed out to the religious action rather than religion and reduced religion to the religious action and accounted properties of religious action. Tillich reflected two meanings of religion; common meaning and special meaning. The Ultimate is in common meaning and in special meaning, it is the aspect of human spirit. Our definitions of religion can be protected by perspectivism which is provided by interdisciplinary approach. Perspectivism and interdisciplinary approach are not perfect but they can help us to make our definitions more and more perfect.