Profane Theology

This response to William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon’s The Sacred Is The Profane argues that scholars of religious studies can self-identify as theologians (if they so choose), if “theology” is taken not as a discourse that reports on God’s nature or action or will, but as a discourse that determin...

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Published in:Method & theory in the study of religion
Main Author: Kavka, Martin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Further subjects:B William Arnal Russell McCutcheon theology
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:This response to William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon’s The Sacred Is The Profane argues that scholars of religious studies can self-identify as theologians (if they so choose), if “theology” is taken not as a discourse that reports on God’s nature or action or will, but as a discourse that determines what beliefs and actions might be justifiably inferred from a community’s authoritative texts and exemplars. Doing theology as a field of inference—as a series of if-then statements—is something that scholars can do regardless of religious confession (or lack thereof).
ISSN:1570-0682
Contains:In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341331