Original Research

Is it still possible to study religion religiously today? Mircea Eliade's religious apologetic account

Eric T. Ngcobo, Jaco Beyers
Verbum et Ecclesia | Vol 34, No 1 | a702 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ve.v34i1.702 | © 2013 Eric T. Ngcobo, Jaco Beyers | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 01 December 2011 | Published: 27 June 2013

About the author(s)

Eric T. Ngcobo, Department of Science of Religion and Missiology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Jaco Beyers, Department of Science of Religion and Missiology, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Abstract

This article reflects on the question whether it is still possible to study religion religiously today or not? This is due to the variety of disciplines’ interest in religion and its phenomena. Such interest influenced the study to adopt a new approach that is different from that of religious studies. Both religion and its phenomena, especially myths according to the reductionists, should be treated lesser than they are professed to be. Mircea Eliade on the other hand argues differently, as he stresses on the point that religious phenomena can only be studied under religious spheres alone.

Keywords

mythology

Metrics

Total abstract views: 4298
Total article views: 11067

 

Crossref Citations

1. The Holy Communion and African rituals: An encounter between African religion and Christianity
Themba E. Ngcobo
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies  vol: 76  issue: 3  year: 2020  
doi: 10.4102/hts.v76i3.5614