Reinventing religious studies : key writings in the history of a discipline /
edited by Scott S. Elliott.
- 1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
For such a time as this : the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion, 1969-2009 / Why a council on the study of religion? / Ironies / Religious studies : the next vocation / Impressions from Wingspread : religious studies--the state of the art / History of religions / The future of religious studies : moving beyond the mandate of the 1960s / Naming the game : a question of the field / Neutrality in the study of religion / Assessing social-scientific theories of religion / Playing hardball in religious studies / The academic study of religion : a methodological reflection / Fending off the social sciences / Confessions of a former establishment fundamentalist / Confessing away the soul with the sins, or the risks of Uncle Tomism among the humanists : a reply to Robert Bellah / Criteria for organizing the introductory course in religion / Teaching about religion at the state university : taking the issue seriously and strictly / Teaching about religion at the state university : a reply / Teaching about religion at the religiously affiliated university : taking the issue seriously and strictly--a reply to Robert Baird and Robert Minor / For the advancement of my career : a form critical study in the art of acknowledgment / Women's studies in religion / The debut of the Bible as a pagan classic / Bible and religion / Contemporary socio-political change and the work of religious studies / The scholar of religion as a cultural critic : perspectives from Denmark / What are the humanities and why do they matter? : the case of religion and public life / Response to Gary Lease's "What are the humanities, and why do they matter?" / So, what are we professing here? : religion, the liberal arts, and civic life / Response to Raymond B. Williams's "So, what are we professing here? Religion, the liberal arts, and civic life" / Response to Raymond B. Williams's "So, what are we professing here? Religion, the liberal arts, and civic life" / Response to Raymond B. Williams's "So, what are we professing here? Religion, the liberal arts, and civic life" / Rejoinder / Late capitalism arrives on campus : making and remaking the study of religion / Religious studies and identity politics : mythology in the making / Toward an engaged religious studies / The study of religion under late capitalism, or commodity triumphant / On the teaching of Islam in America / Reflections on teaching about September 11 / Terror and violence through Buddhist lenses / Teaching through tragedy / Teaching September 11 / Class on September 11 / Death and memory at Ground Zero : a historian of religion's report / September 11, 2001 and Islam / Scott S. Elliott -- Harold Remus -- Claude Welch -- John F. Wilson -- Jacob Neusner -- Walter H. Capps -- Ninian Smart -- Carl A. Raschke -- Charles Elliott Vernoff -- John H. Whittaker -- Robert A. Segal -- Arvind Sharma -- Arvind Sharma -- Robert A. Segal -- Robert N. Bellah -- James E. Dittes -- James C. Livingston -- Robert N. Minor and Robert D. Baird -- Julia Benton Mitchell and David B. Annis -- Philip Boo Riley -- Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow Goldenberg -- Carol Christ -- John A. Miles, Jr. -- Jonathan Z. Smith -- Walter H. Capps -- Tim Jensen -- Gary Lease -- Robert Hunt -- Raymond B. Williams -- Heather Hartel -- Robert J. Stephens -- Forrest Clingerman -- Raymond B. Williams -- Russell T. McCutcheon -- Darlene Juschka -- Brian E. Malley -- Gustavo Benavides -- Richard C. Martin -- edited by Craig R. Prentiss. Stephen C. Berkwitz -- Patricia Zimmerman Beckman -- Elizabeth McAlister -- Richard Salter -- Paul Christopher Johnson-- Zayn Kassam. Introduction /
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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Religion--Study and teaching. Religion--Methodology.