Critical Thinking Begins at Home: On Making a Shift in the Study of Religion

Using as the starting point experiences gained at the University of Alabama, this paper discusses the context and goals of developing and implementing what Tim Fitzgerald and others have called a critical study of religion program (both undergraduate and graduate) within a modern research university...

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Published in:Implicit religion
Main Author: McCutcheon, Russell T. 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2020]
In: Implicit religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Fitzgerald, Timothy 1947-, The ideology of religious studies / Science of Religion / Critical thinking
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AH Religious education
Further subjects:B critical religion
B Internationalization
B University of Alabama
B Professionalization
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Summary:Using as the starting point experiences gained at the University of Alabama, this paper discusses the context and goals of developing and implementing what Tim Fitzgerald and others have called a critical study of religion program (both undergraduate and graduate) within a modern research university - an initiative that played a key role in our department’s successful reinvention, one that has been taking place over the past twenty years.
ISSN:1743-1697
Contains:Enthalten in: Implicit religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/imre.41110