Religious studies and the goal of interdisciplinarity / Brent Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Brent (Associate Professor), author.

Series:

Routledge focus on religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Methodology.

Religion.

Physical Description:

111 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This book offers a survey of the development of interdisciplinarity in Religious Studies within academia and offers ways for it to continue to progress in contemporary universities. It examines the use of the term 'interdisciplinary' in the context of the academic study of religion and how it shapes the way scholarly work in this field has developed. The text uses two main elements to discuss Religious Studies as a field. Firstly, it looks at the history of the development of Religious Studies in academia, as seen through an interdisciplinary critique of the university as an epistemological project. It then uses the same interdisciplinary critique to develop a foundation for a 21st century hermeneutic. One which uses the classical concepts reprised by that interdisciplinary critique and retools the field for the 21st century. Setting out both the objects of Religious Studies as a subject and the techniques used to employ the study of those objects, this book offers an invaluable perspective on the progress of the field. It will, therefore, be of great use to scholars of research methods within Religious Studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Location, Positionality, and the Interdisciplinary Religious Studies Scholar

Locating the Academic Study of Religion: An Interdisciplinary Critique of the Epistemological Development of the University

Something Other than an "And" or an "Is": The Overlapping Domain of the Sacred-Profane

Sighting the Sacred Unseen: A Camouflaged Order Appears

Hierophany as an Interdisciplinary Concept

A Summary and Summons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Smith, Brent, Religious studies and the goal of interdisciplinarity

ISBN:

9780367029449

0367029448

OCLC:

1104876065