A Modest Proposal on Method: Essaying the Study of Religion
Further documents methodological and institutional failings in the academic study of religion. This collection of essays--which includes three previously unpublished chapters--identifies the manner in which old problems (like the presumption that our object of study is a special, deeply meaningful c...
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
©2015
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In: | Year: 2015 |
Series/Journal: | Supplements to method & theory in the study of religion 2214-3270
volume 2 Supplements to method & theory in the study of religion volume 2 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Science of Religion
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Collection of essays
B Religion Study and teaching B Religion Methodology B Religion ; Study and teaching B Electronic books B RELIGION ; Comparative Religion B RELIGION ; Essays B Religion ; Methodology B RELIGION ; Reference |
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Summary: | Further documents methodological and institutional failings in the academic study of religion. This collection of essays--which includes three previously unpublished chapters--identifies the manner in which old problems (like the presumption that our object of study is a special, deeply meaningful case) yet remain in the field. But amidst the critique there are a variety of practical suggestions for how the science of religion can become methodologically even-handed and self-reflexive--the markings of a historically rigorous exercise.--Provided by publisher Introduction: Plus c̦̦a change -- A modest proposal on method -- I have a hunch -- Myth -- Introducing Smith -- How to give up the Bible, and learn to love it again -- "Why do you seek the living among the dead?" (Luke 24:5) -- A response to Donald Wiebe from an easy-going Zax -- "And that's why no one takes the humanities seriously" -- It could be different: reinventing the study of religion in Alabama. |
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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 900428141X |