Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules?: Why There Must Be More Ways to Be "Critical" in the Study of Religion

According to some of the most vocal proponents of Critical Religion (CR), taking CR seriously entails accepting that religion as an analytic category leads to reification and naturalization and is unduly normative, thus critical scholars of religion should abandon it and restrict ourselves to studyi...

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Authors: Watts, Galen (Author) ; Mosurinjohn, Sharday (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2022
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 90, Issue: 2, Pages: 317-334
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Critical theory / Science of Religion / Methodology / Comparison of theories / Normativity / Categorization
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
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