Writing religion : the case for the critical study of religion / edited by Steven W. Ramey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramey, Steven W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religions is an edited collection of essays that highlights critical contributions from the first ten Aronov lecturers. Section one of the volume, " Writing Discourses," features essays by Jonathan Z. Smith, Bruce Lincoln, and Ann Pellegrini that illustrated

Contents:

Contents; Foreword / Theodore Louis Trost and Steven Leonard Jacobs; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Writing, Riting, and Righting in the Critical Study of Religion / Steven W. Ramey; I. Writing Discourses; 1. God Save This Honorable Court: Religion and Civic Discourse / Jonathan Z. Smith; 2. An Early Moment in the Discourse of "Terrorism": Reflections on a Tale from Marco Polo / Bruce Lincoln; 3. "A Storm on the Horizon": Discomforting Democracy and the Feeling of Fairness / Ann Pellegrini; II. Riting Social Formations; 4. Fear of Small Numbers / Arjun Appadurai

5. Developing a Critical Consciousness: Feminist Studies in Religion / Judith Plaskow 6. Religious Practices and Communal Identity of Cochin Jews: Models, Metaphors, and Methods of Diasporic Religious Acculturation / Nathan Katz; 7. Regarding Origin: Beginnings, Foundations, and the Bicameral Formation of the Study of Religion / Tomoko Masuzawa; 8. De-Judaizing Jesus: Theological Need and Exegetical Execution / Amy-Jill Levine; 9. How to Theorize with a Hammer, or, On the Destruction and Reconstruction of Islamic Studies / Aaron W. Hughes

10. Personal Self-Disclosure, Religious Studies Pedagogy, and the Skeptical Mission of the Public University / Martin S. Jaffee Afterword: Reinventing the Study of Religion in Alabama / Russell T. McCutcheon; Works Cited; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

"The First Decade of Aronov Lecturers at the University of Alabama."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8838-9

OCLC:

913214066