A Modest Proposal on Method

Essaying the Study of Religion
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36217-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

A Modest Proposal on Method further documents methodological and institutional failings in the academic study of religion. This collection of essays identifies the manner in which old problems (like the presumption that our object of study is a special, deeply meaningful case) yet remain in the field. But amidst the critique there are a variety of practical suggestions for how the science of religion can become methodologically even-handed and self-reflexive—the markings of a historically rigorous exercise. Each chapter is introduced and contextualized by a newly written, substantive introduction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mccutcheon, Russell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Sources
Preface

Introduction
Plus ça change…

1 Introduction
A Modest Proposal on Method

2 Introduction
I Have a Hunch

3 Introduction
Myth

4 Introduction
Introducing Smith

5 Introduction
How to Give Up the Bible, and Learn to Love It Again

6 Introduction
“Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead?” (Luke 24: 5)

7 Introduction
A Response to Donald Wiebe from an East-Going Zax

8 Introduction
“And That’s Why No One Takes the Humanities Seriously”

9 Introduction
It Could be Different
Reinventing the Study of Religion in Alabama

Afterword
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Russell T. McCutcheon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. Onetime editor of Brill's journal, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (MTSR), he has written or edited/co-edited a wide variety of books and resources on the practice of the study of religion.