A Point by Point Response to Don Wiebe: A Manifesto for the Scientific Study of Religion

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jeppe Sinding Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Methodological Naturalism ◽  
Theory Ladenness

Abstract A point by point response to Wiebe’s ‘Manifesto’, mostly in support of the ‘methodological naturalism’—with added precautions on the current use of the term ‘science’. A philosophy for the study of religion is called for, with an epistemological range that caters for collective methodologies and social ontologies; respects the analytic distinction between ‘subject matter’ and ‘theoretical object’—and, ultimately, the theory-ladenness of all talk about ‘religion’. Naturalism is not about givens in the study of meaningful human behavior.

Review of Psychology: A scientific study of human behavior. 5th ed.

1979 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 947-947
Author(s):  
RICHARD A. KASSCHAU
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Scientific Study

The (Un)translatability of Well-Being

2020 ◽  
pp. 377-394
Author(s):  
Tim Lomas
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Mainstream Psychology

Positive psychology—the scientific study of well-being—has made considerable strides in understanding its subject matter since emerging in the late 1990s. However, like mainstream psychology more broadly, it can be deemed relatively Western-centric, with its concepts and priorities influenced by ways of thinking and understanding that are prominent in Western cultures. Consequently, the field would benefit from greater cross-cultural awareness, engagement, and understanding. One such means of doing so is through the study of “untranslatable” words (i.e., those lacking an exact equivalent in another language, in this case English). This chapter reflects on the nature of untranslatable words, considers their significance to positive psychology (and psychology more broadly), and offers suggestions for why and how the field should engage with them.

scholarly journals PENGEMBANGAN MATA KULIAH HADIS TARBAWI PADA PERGURUAN TINGGI ISLAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-171
Author(s):  
M Zuhri Abu Nawas ◽  
Sapruddin Sapruddin
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Scientific Quality ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Material Development ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Material Functions

The Tarbawi Hadith material development is a study carried out in the framework of development and component results and approach analysis. This included the development of tarbawi hadith course accessed by integrating and interconnecting science. This research provided inspiration and innovation in the development of constructive scientific quality and presenting reinforcement of learning formulation material as a scientific study program. This  study applied an exploratory-descriptive research designed qualitatively. The development of the Tarbawi hadith material required systemic steps and  applied by maximizing the sustainable aspect of inter-connectivity between the basic structured of allied subject matter for the aspects of material functions and the methodology of the study of hadith material related to the contemporary religious studies.

Contributions to the History of Psychology: XXXII. On Living with a Specter: The Story of Anomalistic Psychology

1982 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 683-694
Author(s):  
Leonard Zusne
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Psychical Research ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Academic Psychology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Difference ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Relationship

The subject matter of anomalistic psychology is human behavior and experiences for which paranormal or occult causation is claimed and which appear to violate some of the basic principles on which nature is known to operate. The ambivalence and skepticism of American psychologists concerning paranormal and occult matters are examined historically, as is the relationship between academic psychology, psychical research and parapsychology, and anomalistic psychology. The difference between parapsychology and anomalistic psychology in terms of two contrasting orientations is stressed. The reasons for the persistence of beliefs in ESP and related phenomena are examined, and the need for psychology to come to grips with them is stated.

scholarly journals Age as a factor in animal breeding

1912 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
John McKinley Jones
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Animal Breeding ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Poultry Breeding

Text from the Introduction: Animal breeding to-day offers opportunities for scientific study and research. We find two classes of men engaged in the breeding of domestic animals: First: The practical breeder, who wishes to solve various problems in connection with his breeding operations, so that he may improve or buildup his herds, in order that he may secure a larger income from his capital invested in livestock, and Second: The scientific breeder, who wishes to find out how the characters are transmitted. In such a problem as this, both the scientific and the practical breeder can, no doubt, profit by a knowledge of the methods employed and the results obt a ined by the other. It was with the above idea in mind that the investigation described in Chapters I. and VII. were conducted. The remaining subject matter was taken from various sources, the chief being from data collected from the swine and poultry breeding investigations under way at this Station.

Reviews of the Literature

1955 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-36
Keyword(s):  
Political Psychology ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Motivation ◽  
And Behavior

Political theorists have at all times regarded their subject matter as one area of human behavior, and many of them have searched for the psychological laws which would best explain and predict what happens in politics, and also what ought to happen. These attempts have produced some of the narrowest and most distorted theories of human motivation and behavior, as in Hobbes's grand system, in Rousseau's, in Utilitarianism. Spokesmen for the irrational forces, from Mandeville to Bagehot and to some latter day authors, have erred as much through lack of thoroughness, as the rationalists did through excessive confidence in building comprehensive systems. Such diverse writers and statesmen, however, as Machiavelli, Burke, Tocqueville, J. S. Mill and Graham Wallas have left posterity invaluable observations and analyses of the motives and sentiments which influence politics, and on how they operate. The work of any one of them, or all of them together with yet others, could, perhaps, justly be presented for study as a psychology of politics. Yet, if the model of scientific discipline is the mensurational method and reproduceable experiment employed in the physicist's laboratory, then the body of political psychology built up by generations of historians, lawyers, philosophers and statesmen, is not science.

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