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Why study religion? / Richard B. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Richard Brian, 1953- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion--Methodology.
- Religion.
- Religion--Study and teaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Why Study Religion? offers an alternative framework, Critical Humanism, for thinking about the purposes of the discipline. Richard B. Miller theorizes about the ends rather than the means of humanistic scholarship. He argues that the future of religious studies will depend on how well it can articulate its goals as a basis for motivating scholarship in the field.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-756683-9
- 0-19-756684-7
- 0-19-756682-0
- OCLC:
- 1264172390
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