The future of the study of religion : proceedings of Congress 2000 / edited by Slavica Jakelic and Lori Pearson.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Congress 2000: the Future of the Study of Religion, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Jakelic, Slavica.

Pearson, Lori.

Conference Name:

Congress 2000: the Future of the Study of Religion (2000 : Boston, Mass.)

Congress 2000: the Future of the Study of Religion

Series:

Studies in the history of religions ; 103.

Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; v. 103

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Study and teaching--Congresses.

Religion.

Religions--Study and teaching--Congresses.

Religions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together diverse voices from various fields within religious and theological studies for a conversation about the proper objects, goals, and methods for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. It approaches these questions by way of the most recent contemporary challenges, debates, and developments in the field, and provides a forum in which contending perspectives are tested and contested by their proponents and opponents. Contributors address topics such as: the connection between the ‘normative’ and the ‘scientific’ approaches to the study of religion, the meaning of religion in a context of globalization, the relation between religious studies and religious traditions, the viability of comparative and cultural studies of religious phenomena, and the future of gender studies in religion.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Slavica Jakelić and Lori Pearson

Whither the Study of Religion? / Slavica Jakelić and Lori Pearson

The Stubborn Persistence of Religion: Some Post-Secular Reflections / Friedrich Wilhelm Graf

The Stubborn Persistence of Debates about Religion: A Response to Friedrich Wilhelm Graf / Peter Berger

The Study of Religions in the Twentieth Century / Hans G. Kippenberg

The History of Religions and the Study of Religions: A Response to Hans Kippenberg / Christoph Schwöbel

Difference and Coherence in the Worldwide Study of Religions / Michael Pye

Response to Michael Pye / Robert Cummings Neville

Globalization and the Future Study of Religion / Bryan S. Turner

Response to Bryan Turner / Adam B. Seligman

The Proper Object of the Study of Religion: Why It Is Better to Know Some of the Questions Than All of the Answers / Ivan Strenski

Problems, Questions, and Curiosities: A Response to Ivan Strenski / Elizabeth A. Castelli

Diversity and the Study of Mysticism / Steven T. Katz

Response to Steven Katz / Francis X. Clooney

Engendering the Study of Religion / Elizabeth A. Clark

Agency and Evidence in Feminist Studies of Religion: A Response to Elizabeth Clark / Amy Hollywood

Detraditionalizing the Study of Religion / Paul Heelas

Response to Paul Heelas / Ann Braude

Retraditionalizing the Study of Religion: The Conflict of the Faculties: Theology and the Economy of the Sciences / John Milbank

Theology or Religious Studies? The Future of Religious Studies: A Response to John Milbank / Paul Morris

Ernst Troeltsch and the Future of the Study of Religion / Trutz Rendtorff

Response to Trutz Rendtorff / Sarah Coakley

Congress 2000: The Future of the Study of Religion Parallel Sessions and Panel Discussion / Sarah Coakley

Index / Sarah Coakley

Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series / Sarah Coakley.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-91463-7

9786610914630

90-474-0412-2

1-4294-0827-8

OCLC:

191929149

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047404125 DOI