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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2020]
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Implicit religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 22, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 349-372 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Fitzgerald, Timothy 1947-, The ideology of religious studies
/ Science of Religion
/ Critical thinking
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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. |
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ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.41110 |