THEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES

This article discusses two important approaches in religious studies: theological and anthropological. The theological approach is a way of understanding religion by reading religious texts such as the scriptures or other sacred religious texts, while the anthropological approach is understanding the relationship between religion and human culture. In fact, theological approach cannot be separated from the anthropological because theological understanding emerges in the historical and cultural context in which world religions emerge. This article is an analytical descriptive study