A modest proposal on method : essaying the study of religion / Russell T. McCutcheon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCutcheon, Russell T., 1961- author.

Series:

Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 2.

Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 2214-3270 ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Methodology.

Religion.

Religion--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Modest Proposal on Method 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 This collection of essays—which includes three previously unpublished chapters—identifies the manner in which old problems (like the presumption that our object of study is a special, deeply meaningful case) yet remain in the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. Each chapter is introduced and contextualized by a newly written, substantive introduction.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Plus ça change…

Introduction: A Modest Proposal on Method

Introduction: I Have a Hunch

Introduction: Myth

Introduction: Introducing Smith

Introduction: How to Give Up the Bible, and Learn to Love It Again

Introduction: “Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead?” (Luke 24: 5)

Introduction: A Response to Donald Wiebe from an East-Going Zax

Introduction: “And That’s Why No One Takes the Humanities Seriously”

Introduction: It Could be Different: Reinventing the Study of Religion in Alabama

Afterword

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28141-X

OCLC:

893333532

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004281417 DOI