نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 نویسنده مسئول، استاد، گروه ادیان و عرفان تطبیقی، دانشکده الهیات و معارف اسلامی، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران
2 فارغ التحصیل کارشناسی ارشد، ادیان و عرفان تطبیقی، گروه ادیان و عرفان تطبیقی، دانشکده الهیات و معارف اسلامی، دانشگاه تهران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
The present article addresses the question of what the method of interpretive anthropology is and what the main approach of this perspective is when examining human phenomena, especially religious phenomena. It comments on the nature of interpretive anthropology and provides a comprehensive definition of this perspective, explaining its philosophical foundations. The method of this writing is based on a descriptive-analytical approach and in some cases content analysis. Interpretive or symbolic anthropology is one of the branches of American cultural anthropology that emerged in the twentieth century in America. It emphasizes understanding meaning through symbols and rituals by offering a unique definition of culture. The article, with a brief reference to the essence of Clifford Geertz's interpretive anthropological approach - the most important representative of the interpretive approach - and the definition he provides of culture and religion, elaborately demonstrates this approach's reliance on philosophical hermeneutics and its confrontation with positivist approaches in the humanities. It delves into various aspects of this confrontation and reliance, showing that Geertz, inspired by hermeneutical principles as a cultural anthropologist and scholar of religion, turned to interpreting and understanding the meaning of religion and culture. His interpretive approach in religious studies and anthropology is inspired by these foundations. In fact, by defining culture as a text, hermeneutic elements such as focusing on interpretation and meaning, emphasizing history and historical existence, focusing on the inner aspects of human experience and inner methods, emphasis on linguistic components, and symbol and sign, and understanding in the shadow of part-to-whole and whole-to-part references implicitly and explicitly form the basis of Geertz's viewpoint in cultural and religious studies.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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