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Study of religions on the borders of social, historical and cognitive sciences
No full textThis text was produced as a material for Arbeitskreis Theorie und Methodologie in der Religionswissenschaft (AKTUM) within Deutsche Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft (DVRW). The author reflects contemporary debate about scientific foundations of the study of religions. In the first part he compares methods of historical and social sciences and identifies those fields of research in which these methods are most commonly applied. Both methods, which are hardly ever mastered with the same level of competence by one single scientist, tend to explore certain topics. Whereas historical methods use mainly textual sources to answer questions about the past, methods of social sciences provide researcher with tools which enable him/her to intentionally create data about contemporary situation. Specific methods of these two approaches lead, according to the author, to certain one-sidedness – historical study is limited by textual sources, which are most often concerned with mainstream religious traditions, whereas contemporary sociological researches often deal with small, even marginal religious groups. As a result of this situation, issues connected with contemporary mainstream religious traditions remain almost abandoned. ..
Study of religions on the borders of social, historical and cognitive sciences
No full textThis text was produced as a material for Arbeitskreis Theorie und Methodologie in der Religionswissenschaft (AKTUM) within Deutsche Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft (DVRW). The author reflects contemporary debate about scientific foundations of the study of religions. In the first part he compares methods of historical and social sciences and identifies those fields of research in which these methods are most commonly applied. Both methods, which are hardly ever mastered with the same level of competence by one single scientist, tend to explore certain topics. Whereas historical methods use mainly textual sources to answer questions about the past, methods of social sciences provide researcher with tools which enable him/her to intentionally create data about contemporary situation. Specific methods of these two approaches lead, according to the author, to certain one-sidedness – historical study is limited by textual sources, which are most often concerned with mainstream religious traditions, whereas contemporary sociological researches often deal with small, even marginal religious groups. As a result of this situation, issues connected with contemporary mainstream religious traditions remain almost abandoned. ...This text was produced as a material for Arbeitskreis Theorie und Methodologie in der Religionswissenschaft (AKTUM) within Deutsche Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft (DVRW). The author reflects contemporary debate about scientific foundations of the study of religions. In the first part he compares methods of historical and social sciences and identifies those fields of research in which these methods are most commonly applied. Both methods, which are hardly ever mastered with the same level of competence by one single scientist, tend to explore certain topics. Whereas historical methods use mainly textual sources to answer questions about the past, methods of social sciences provide researcher with tools which enable him/her to intentionally create data about contemporary situation. Specific methods of these two approaches lead, according to the author, to certain one-sidedness – historical study is limited by textual sources, which are most often concerned with mainstream religious traditions, whereas contemporary sociological researches often deal with small, even marginal religious groups. As a result of this situation, issues connected with contemporary mainstream religious traditions remain almost abandoned. ..
Religionswissenschaft zwischen Sozialwissenschaften, Geschichtswissenschaften und Kognitionsforschung.
No full textDer Sammelband geht auf einen Autorenworkshop des Arbeitskreises Theorie und Methodologie der Religionswissenschaft (AKTUM) der Deutschen Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft (DVRW) aus dem Jahr 2008 an der Philipps-Universität Marburg zurück. Initiatorinnen des Workshops waren Gritt Klinkhammer und Edith Franke. Ausgangspunkt der Tagung war ein Beitrag von Hubert Seiwert mit dem Titel "Religionswissenschaft zwischen Sozialwissenschaften, Geschichtswissenschaften und Kognitionsforschung", zu dem alle an der Tagung Teilnehmenden ihrerseits eine Replik verfassten und zur Diskussion stellten. Mit der Veröffentlichung dieser Tagungsbeiträge möchten wir ein Spektrum kontroverser religionswissenschaftlicher Positionen in der anhaltenden und weiterhin notwendigen Debatte um die Identität und Autonomie der Religionswissenschaft dokumentieren und zugänglich machen
Wie wahr sind Glaubensbekenntnisse? Die Bedeutung von Glaubensbekenntnissen für das Wahrheitsbewußtsein der Religionen
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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