%0 Electronic Article %A Marti, Gerardo %I Sage %D 2016 %G English %@ 2050-3040 %T A sociologist learns to study religion %J Critical research on religion %V 4 %N 3 %P 267-273 %U https://doi.org/10.1177/2050303216676525 %X It took a very long time before I encountered the systematic study of religious processes and dynamics as a distinctive and expansive area of scholarship. Using an autobiographical account, I trace the development of my scholarship in the social scientific study of religion. I have now experienced a great diversity of approaches to the study of religion. Driven by insatiable curiosity and knowing that no one can capture religion comprehensively, I now am committed to stimulating imaginative, rigorous, and wide-ranging developments in religious scholarship. We require new, inventive, and even incompatible approaches to our study of religion if we ever hope to try adequately grasping the richness of religion.