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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 276-287 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
/ Post-humanism
/ Cyborgs
/ Sociological theory
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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. |
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ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341484 |