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https://doi.org/10.21464/fi38409

Interpretative Science of Culture and Postliberal Theology

Krešimir Šimić orcid.org/0000-0001-9078-7780 ; Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Filozofski fakultet, Lorenza Jagera 9, HR–31000 Osijek

Abstract

When its constitution was attempted in the second half of the nineteenth century, the science of culture (Culturology, L. White) was represented as a reform science. It was a reform in the sense of emancipation concerning metaphysics and theology, but also regarding social progress (E. B. Tylor). The science of culture, which has tried to establish itself as a cohesive place for all socio-humanistic sciences and become reform science, has eventually become the interpretative science (C. Geertz). Interpretative science of culture also has a reformative affinity. After reviewing the nineteenth-century science of culture (anthropology), the paper introduces the fundamental determinants of Geertz's theory of culture and postliberal liberal theology, primarily based on Geertz. Finally, the paper reveals the reform potential of interpretative science of culture and postliberal theology.

Keywords

science of culture; interpretative science; Clifford Geertz; postliberal theology; reform

Hrčak ID:

219472

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/219472

Publication date:

14.2.2019.

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