Russell T. Mccutcheon

Dialogues on Religion-and its Study (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Edition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dialogues on Religion-and its Study creatively revives a time-honored genre by offering a series of new speeches on religion (its definition, description, comparison, and explanation) between two old friends who periodically meet throughout the year. Eventually working their way to examining why we tend to call part of our world and our experiences religious, nonspecialist readers can eavesdrop on their conversations, gaining entry to a series of timely, interesting, and sometimes surprisingly complex topics-which all begins with one of them coming across a curious news story on their phone.

Treating these dialogues as if they were found objects, the book then also joins in a long tradition of critical editions by offering a scholarly introduction to the speeches along with a detailed commentary on both the technical items mentioned as well as the various cultural references that our speakers find to be familiar and then use to think through material that's rather new-at the same time providing clues as to their identities and location. Written in the vernacular, with a helpful postface that some may wish to read first, Dialogues on Religion-and its Study is original, engaging, and at times funny while always meeting readers where they sometimes are: just a little intrigued by something they've discovered and wishing that they could discuss it with a good friend, maybe meeting for coffee or over breakfast at a diner.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040159767
• Artikelnr.: 72276496

Autorenporträt

Russell T. McCutcheon is widely published in the academic study of religion, its methods, theories, and the field's history; he is University Research Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, U.S.A.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Critical Edition On Dating the Dialogues and
Identifying the Speakers 1. The Definition of Religion 2. The Description
of Religion 3. The Comparison of Religion 4. The Explanation of Religion 5.
The Category of Religion Critical Notes A Truthful Postface Index