Playing with Religion: Delight at the Border between Epistemological Worlds

This article builds on conversations that began here in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion in 2019 on Jonathan Z. Smith’s legacy to the study of religion. Specifically, in this article I take up and elaborate on Heather Blair’s tentative proposal for thinking about religious studies as...

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Main Author: Dunn, Mary 1976- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2021
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 89, Issue: 4, Pages: 1208-1228
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