Theology and Religious Studies in Higher Education

Global Perspectives
Herausgeber: Bird, D. L.; Smith, Simon G.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Theology and religious studies co-exist in the majority of departments in higher education institutions within the UK, yet there has been very little debate or discussion on how these two disciplines relate to one another in this context and on a more general level. This new collection of essays aims to redress the balance and to add to fruitful discussion in this area Including essays by some of today's leading academics on the sometimes contentious relationship between religious studies - or the study of religions - and theology, this volume is international in scope, with contributions from scholars from the UK, USA, South Africa, Netherlands, Sweden and Iran. Many of the essays offer a contextualised account of the evolving relationship between the disciplines. The contributors address such issues as the place of theology within today's universities; the problem of clashing methodologies in theology and religious studies; the possibility for a 'theological religious studies'; approaching the study of religions without theology; interdisciplinary approaches for bridging the theology/religious studies divide; and the place of biblical studies in the theology/religious studies debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 457g
• ISBN-13: 9781847063113
• ISBN-10: 184706311X
• Artikelnr.: 24371658

Autorenporträt

Darlene L. Bird is Lecturer in the Centre for Academic Practice at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. Simon G. Smith is Co-Director at the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies based in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Introduction
1. Religious Studies versus Theology: why I'm still glad that I 'converted'
from Theology to Religious Studies Denise Cush (Queen Margaret University,
UK)
2. Theology and Religious Studies for a Multifaith and Secular Society
David F. Ford (University of Cambridge, UK)
3. Theology and Religious Studies OR Theology versus Religious Studies?
Gavin D'Costa (University of Bristol, UK)
4. Theology as Past and Future of Religious Studies: An Incarnational
Approach Erik Borgman (Yilbery University, Netherlands) and Stephan van Erp
(Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
5. The Irony of Religious Studies: A Pro-Theological Argument from the
Swedish Experience Mattias Martinson (Uppsala University, Sweden)
6. The Inevitability of Normativity in the Study of Religion: Theology in
Religious Studies Thomas Lewis (Brown University, USA)
7. Towards a Socio-Cultural, Non-Theological Definition of Religion James
Cox (University of Edinburgh, UK)
8. A Spatial Analysis of the Relationship between Theology and Religious
Studies: knowledge-power strategies and metaphors of containment and
separation Kim Knott (University of Leeds, UK)
9. 'A Coat of Many Colours': Interweaving Strands in Theology and Religious
Studies Ursula King (Bristol University, UK)
10. Interdisciplinary Theology: Bridging the Theology / Religious Studies
Divide Shannon Craigo-Snell (Yale University, USA)
11. Recent Developments in Theology and Religious Studies: The South
African Experience J. Jarvis (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
and C.A.E. Moodie (Theological Education By Extension College,
Johannesburg, South Africa)
12. The Place of Theology in Iranian Universities: The Challenges of
Teaching Theology in Modern Iran Mohammad Sadegh Zahedi (Imam Khomeini
International University, Iran)
13. The Bible: Fringe or Hinge? Hugh Pyper (University of Sheffield, UK)