Complete Classification of Religious Science Approaches

The classification of religious science approaches faces several problems. This article seeks to comprehensively classify approaches to religious science that are free from these problems.

In presenting the new classification, analytical method and Max Weber's Ideal Type have been used.

In this classification, along with those who explicitly support the idea of religious science, there is a place for those thinkers who oppose religious science. This classification pays attention to both the approaches that make the production of religious science manageable and the approaches that consider the production of religious science as unmanageable. It also looks at the approaches that directly produce religious science and the approaches that follow the production of religious science through the evolution of scholars and social structures. Additionally, it pays attention to the approaches that start from existing science and try to move towards religious science by using Islamic knowledge; also approaches that start from Islamic knowledge and try to establish religious science.

This paper shows that the views of most theorists of religious science are a combination of ideal approaches to the field of religious science.