Scott S. Elliott

Reinventing Religious Studies (eBook, PDF)

Key Writings in the History of a Discipline

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Produktbeschreibung

"Reinventing Religious Studies" offers readers an opportunity to trace the important trends and developments in Religious Studies over the last forty years. Over this time the study of religion has been transformed into a critical discipline informed by a wide range of perspectives from sociology to anthropology, politics to material culture, and economics to cultural theory. "Reinventing Religious Studies" brings together key writings which have helped shape scholarship, teaching and learning in the field. All the essays are drawn from the CSSR Bulletin, a provocative, occasionally irreverent, and always critical journal which has long been at the centre of debates in Religious Studies. This collection will prove invaluable for students and scholars of theory and method in Religious Studies. It offers readers a unique opportunity to understand the history of key issues in the study of religion and what remains central to the study of religion today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317546634
• Artikelnr.: 41781506

Autorenporträt

Scott S. Elliott is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Adrian College, Michigan, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Scott S. Elliott 1. For Such a Time as This: The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion
1969-2009
Harold Remus PART 1: INVENTING AND REINVENTING THE FIELD OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES 2. Why a Council on the Study of Religion? Claude Welsch 3. Ironies
John F. Wilson 4. Religious Studies: The Next Vocation
Jacob Neusner 5. Impressions from Wingspread: Religious Studies - The State of the Art
Walter H. Capps 6. History of Religions
Ninian Smart 7. The Future of Religious Studies: Moving Beyond the Mandate of the 1960s
Carl A. Raschke 8. Naming the Game: A Question of the Field
Charles Elliott Vernoff PART 2: METHOD AND THEORY IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES 9. Neutrality in the Study of Religion
John H. Whittaker 10. Assessing Social-Scientific Theories of Religion
Robert A. Segal 11. Playing Hardball in Religious Studies
Arvind Sharma 12. The Academic Study of Religion: A Methodological Reflection
Arvind Sharma 13. Fending Off the Social Sciences
Robert A. Segal PART 3: TEACHING RELIGION 14. Confessions of a Former Establishment Fundamentalist
Robert N. Bellah 15. Confessing Away the Soul with the Sins
or: The Risks of Uncle Tomism Among the Humanists
James E. Dittes 16. Criteria for Organizing the Introductory Course in Religion
James C. Livingston 17. Teaching about Religion at the State University
Robert N. Minor and Robert D. Baird 18. Teaching about Religion at the State University: A Reply
Julia Benton Mitchell and David B. Annis 19. Teaching about Religion at the Religiously-Affiliated University: A Reply to Robert Baird & Robert Minor
Philip Boo Riley PART 4: WOMEN AND THE BIBLE IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES 20. For the Advancement of My Career: A Form Critical Study in the Art of Acknowledgement
Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow Goldenberg 21. Women's Studies in Religion
Carol Christ 22. The Debut of the Bible as a Pagan Classic
John A. Miles
Jr. 23. Bible and Religion
Jonathan Z. Smith PART 5: RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES IN CIVIC LIFE 24. Contemporary Socio-Political Change and the Work of Religious Studies
Walter H. Capps 25. The Scholar of Religion as a Cultural Critic: Perspectives from Denmark
Tim Jensen 26. What Are the Humanities and Why Do They Matter? The Case of Religion and Public Life
Gary Lease 27. Response to Gary Lease's "What Are the Humanities
and Why Do They Matter?"
Robert Hunt 28. So
What Are We Professing Here? Religion
the Liberal Arts
and Civic Life
Raymond B. Williams 29. Response to Raymond B. Williams'
"So
What Are We Professing Here?"
Heather Hartel 30. Response to Raymond B. Williams'
"So
What Are We Professing Here?"
Robert J. Stephens 31. Response to Raymond B. Williams'
"So
What Are We Professing Here?"
Forrest Clingerman 32. Rejoinder
Raymond B. Williams PART 6: RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND IDENTITY POLITICS 33. Late Capitalism Arrives on Campus: Making and Remaking the Study of Religion
Russell T. McCutcheon 34. Religious Studies and Identity Politics: Mythology in the Making
Darlene Juschka 35. Toward an Engaged Religious Studies
Brian E. Malley 36. The Study of Religion Under Late Capitalism
or
Commodity Triumphant
Gustavo Benavides PART 7: ISLAM AND 9/11 37. On the Teaching of Islam in America
Richard C. Martin 38. Reflections on Teaching about September 11
Craig R. Prentiss
ed. 39. Terror and Violence through Buddhist Lenses
Stephen C. Berkwitz 40. Teaching Through Tragedy
Patricia Zimmerman Beckman 41. Teaching September 11th
Elizabeth McAlister 42. Class on September 11
Richard Salter 43. Death and Memory at Ground Zero: A Historian of Religion's Report
Paul Christopher Johnson 44. September 11
2001 and Islam
Zayn Kassam