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Accepted Paper:
Adam Smith, true religion and normative anthropology
Gordon Graham
(Princeton Theological Seminary)
Paper short abstract:
This paper will explore Adam Smith's account of religion as a model for a normative anthropology of religion.
Paper long abstract:
Adam Smith, though a close assocate of David Hume, has an interestingly more subtle account of the role of religion in human life. It is, broadly speaking, an evaluative account rooted in a conception of human nature. In this way it provides a model for normative anthropology. The value of exploring this model lies in the light it might shed on the professed evaluative 'neutrality' of more modern anthropological approaches.
Panel
P05
'True religion' and the anthropology of the Scottish Enlightenment
Session 1