Forget worldviews: Towards a Deleuzian religious studies

In this essay I engage in a close analysis of three documents central to the push to place the worldview concept at the front and centre of Religious Studies in schools and universities - the 2018 Commission on Religious Education Report Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward, Worldview: A Multidi...

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Published in:Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
Main Author: Tremlett, Paul-François (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: British Association for the Study of Religions 2022
In: Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
Review of:Worldview: a multidisciplinary report (2020) (Tremlett, Paul-François)
The Worldview Project: discussion papers (2020) (Tremlett, Paul-François)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Commission on Religious Education / World view / Paradigm shift / The Postmodern / Science of Religion / Religious instruction
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AH Religious education
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:In this essay I engage in a close analysis of three documents central to the push to place the worldview concept at the front and centre of Religious Studies in schools and universities - the 2018 Commission on Religious Education Report Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward, Worldview: A Multidisciplinary Report (2020) and The Worldview Project: Discussion Papers (2020). I argue that the documents paint a picture of a subject caught between an objectivist account of a fixed field of really existing religions and a postmodern or Deleuzian mélange of lived interactions and flows. I advocate for a Deleuzian transformation of Religious Studies and the embrace of decolonisation and critical religious literacy, based in a vision of the study of religions as the study of relations and assemblages.
ISSN:2516-6379
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.18792/jbasr.v23i0.55