Religious Studies for Cyborgs: Cognitive Science and Social Theory after Humanism

As it appears, the back and forth between CSR and critical theory pays a great deal of attention to religion as a classificatory and explanatory object but has thus far left alone another category—that of the human. Scholars in other fields, however, have long demonstrated the human subject to be a...

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Published in:Method & theory in the study of religion
Main Author: Simmons, Merinda 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kognitive Religionswissenschaft / Post-humanism / Cyborgs / Sociological theory
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
Further subjects:B Cognitive Science
B Media Theory
B feminist science
B Identity
B Posthumanism
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Summary:As it appears, the back and forth between CSR and critical theory pays a great deal of attention to religion as a classificatory and explanatory object but has thus far left alone another category—that of the human. Scholars in other fields, however, have long demonstrated the human subject to be a slippery trope all its own whose rhetorical and analytical value is not at all a given. It is on the evolution and contemporary state of this vein of criticism that I will focus, then, in an attempt to shift the register of the current conversation about CSR.
ISSN:1570-0682
Contains:Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341484