The Historicization of “Religion” and The Devastation of Study of Religion Departments: Siamese Twins or Contingent Acquaintances?

Two main arguments of Timothy Fitzgerald’s The Ideology of Religious Studies (2000) (IRS) are that religion is an analytically useless (and even harmful) category and that study of religion departments could be rearranged as departments of cultural studies, theoretically informed ethnographic st...

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Main Author: Taira, Teemu (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2020]
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 22, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 291-308
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Fitzgerald, Timothy 1947-, The ideology of religious studies / Science of Religion / Religion / Historiography / Cultural sciences / Interdisciplinarity
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
Further subjects:B Discourse
B Methodology
B Religious Studies
B Theory
B Religion
B study of religion
B Timothy Fitzgerald
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