Reinventing Religious Studies : Key Writings in the History of a Discipline

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliott, Scott S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Religion--Study and teaching--History.

Religious literature--History and criticism.

Social history.

Local Subjects:

Manners and customs.

Religion--Study and teaching--History.

Religious literature--History and criticism.

Social history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen, 2013.

Summary:

"Reinventing Religious Studies" offers readers an opportunity to trace the important trends and developments in Religious Studies over the last forty years. Over this time the study of religion has been transformed into a critical discipline informed by a wide range of perspectives from sociology to anthropology, politics to material culture, and economics to cultural theory. "Reinventing Religious Studies" brings together key writings which have helped shape scholarship, teaching and learning in the field. All the essays are drawn from the CSSR Bulletin, a provocative, occasionally irreverent, and always critical journal which has long been at the centre of debates in Religious Studies. This collection will prove invaluable for students and scholars of theory and method in Religious Studies. It offers readers a unique opportunity to understand the history of key issues in the study of religion and what remains central to the study of religion today.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. For Such a Time As This (Remus)""; ""2. Why a Council on the Study of Religion (Welch)""; ""3. Ironies (Wilson)""; ""4. Religious Studies (Neusner)""; ""5. Impressions from Wingspread (Capps)""; ""6. History of Religions (Smart)""; ""7. The Future of Religious Studies (Raschke)""; ""8. Naming the Game (Vernoff)""; ""9. Neutrality in the Study of Religion (Whittaker)""; ""10. Assessing Social-scientific Theories of Religion (Segal)""; ""11. Playing Hardball in Religious Studies (Sharma)""

""12. The Academic Study of Religion (Sharma)""""13. Fending off the Social Sciences (Segal)""; ""14. Confessions of a Former Establishment Fundamentalist (Bellah)""; ""15. Confessing Away the Soul With the Sins (Dittes)""; ""16. Criteria for Organizing the Introductory Course in Religion (Livingston)""; ""17. Teaching About Religion at the State University (Minor & Baird)""; ""18. Teaching About Religion...: A Reply (Mitchell & Annis)""; ""19. Teaching About Religion at the Religiously Affiliated University (Riley)""; ""20. For the Advancement of My Career (Christ & Goldenberg)""

""21 Women's Studies in Religion (Christ)""""22. The Debut of the Bible as a Pagan Classic (Miles)""; ""23. Bible and Religion (Smith)""; ""24. Contemporary Socio-political Change and the Work of Religious Studies (Capps)""; ""25. The Scholar of Religion As a Cultural Critic (Jensen)""; ""26. What Are the Humanities and Why Do They Matter? (Lease)""; ""27. Response to Gary Lease's ... (Hunt)""; ""28. So, What Are We Professing Here? (Williams)""; ""29. Response to Raymond B. Williams's ... (Hartel)""; ""30. Response to Raymond B. Williams's ... (Stephens)""

""31. Response to Raymond B. Williams's ... (Clingerman)""""32. Rejoinder (Williams)""; ""33. Late Capitalism Arrives on Campus (McCutcheon)""; ""34. Religious Studies and Identity Politics (Juschka)""; ""24. Toward an Engaged Religious Studies (Malley)""; ""36. The Study of Religion Under Late Capitalism (Benavides)""; ""37. On the Teaching of Islam in America (Martin)""; ""38. Reflections on Teaching About September 11 (Prentiss)""; ""39. Death and Memory at Ground Zero (Johnson)""; ""40. September 11, 2001 and Islam (Kassam)""; ""Bibliography""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-317-54662-8

1-84465-781-7