Identifying the meaning and end of scholarship: what’s at stake in Muslim Identities
This article situates Aaron Hughes’s recent work on the study of Islam, and specifically his critique of how much work in the field proceeds, in light of a current set of scholarly papers on normativity in Islamic Studies, in an effort to substantiate his critique of the field. By providing such exa...
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Format: | Electronic/Print Review |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2017]
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Culture and religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 34-48 |
Review of: | Muslim identities (New York : Columbia University Press, 2013) (McCutcheon, Russell T.) |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hughes, Aaron W. 1968-, Muslim identities
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RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion |
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B Book review B Aaron Hughes B engaged scholarship B Islamic Studies B Critique B Islam B Journal of the American Academy of Religion B Normativity |
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Summary: | This article situates Aaron Hughes’s recent work on the study of Islam, and specifically his critique of how much work in the field proceeds, in light of a current set of scholarly papers on normativity in Islamic Studies, in an effort to substantiate his critique of the field. By providing such examples (including the selective and thus self-beneficial way in which so-called engaged scholarship is carried out) the article argues that an approach to the study of religion that aims merely to repeat certain participant claims threatens the model of scholarship others of us have worked so hard to establish as the academic study of religion. |
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ISSN: | 1475-5610 |
Reference: | Kritik in "Response (2017)"
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Contains: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2017.1301973 |