Reinventing religious studies
Subtitle: key writings in the history of a discipline
By: edited by Scott S. Elliott
Publisher: Acumen
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Durham, UK; Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781844656554; 9781844656561; 9781908049285; 9781908049278
Subjects: Religion; Methodology; Study and teaching; Religionswissenschaft
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Scott S. Elliott; title: For such a time as this : the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion, 1969-2009  -- Harold Remus; title: Why a council on the study of religion?  -- Claude Welch; title: Ironies  -- John F. Wilson; title: Religious studies : the next vocation  -- Jacob Neusner; title: Impressions from Wingspread : religious studies--the state of the art  -- Walter H. Capps; title: History of religions  -- Ninian Smart; title: The future of religious studies : moving beyond the mandate of the 1960s  -- Carl A. Raschke; title: Naming the game : a question of the field  -- Charles Elliott Vernoff; title: Neutrality in the study of religion  -- John H. Whittaker; title: Assessing social-scientific theories of religion  -- Robert A. Segal; title: Playing hardball in religious studies  -- Arvind Sharma; title: The academic study of religion : a methodological reflection  -- Arvind Sharma; title: Fending off the social sciences  -- Robert A. Segal; title: Confessions of a former establishment fundamentalist  -- Robert N. Bellah; title: Confessing away the soul with the sins, or the risks of Uncle Tomism among the humanists : a reply to Robert Bellah  -- James E. Dittes; title: Criteria for organizing the introductory course in religion  -- James C. Livingston; title: Teaching about religion at the state university : taking the issue seriously and strictly  -- Robert N. Minor and Robert D. Baird; title: Teaching about religion at the state university : a reply  -- Julia Benton Mitchell and David B. Annis; title: Teaching about religion at the religiously affiliated university : taking the issue seriously and strictly--a reply to Robert Baird and Robert Minor  -- Philip Boo Riley; title: For the advancement of my career : a form critical study in the art of acknowledgment  -- Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow Goldenberg; title: Women's studies in religion  -- Carol Christ; title: The debut of the Bible as a pagan classic  -- John A. Miles, Jr.; title: Bible and religion  -- Jonathan Z. Smith; title: Contemporary socio-political change and the work of religious studies  -- Walter H. Capps; title: The scholar of religion as a cultural critic : perspectives from Denmark  -- Tim Jensen; title: What are the humanities and why do they matter? : the case of religion and public life  -- Gary Lease; title: Response to Gary Lease's "What are the humanities, and why do they matter?"  -- Robert Hunt; title: So, what are we professing here? : religion, the liberal arts, and civic life  -- Raymond B. Williams; title: Response to Raymond B. Williams's "So, what are we professing here? Religion, the liberal arts, and civic life"  -- Heather Hartel; title: Response to Raymond B. Williams's "So, what are we professing here? Religion, the liberal arts, and civic life"  -- Robert J. Stephens; title: Response to Raymond B. Williams's "So, what are we professing here? Religion, the liberal arts, and civic life"  -- Forrest Clingerman; title: Rejoinder  -- Raymond B. Williams; title: Late capitalism arrives on campus : making and remaking the study of religion  -- Russell T. McCutcheon; title: Religious studies and identity politics : mythology in the making  -- Darlene Juschka; title: Toward an engaged religious studies  -- Brian E. Malley; title: The study of religion under late capitalism, or commodity triumphant  -- Gustavo Benavides; title: On the teaching of Islam in America  -- Richard C. Martin; title: Reflections on teaching about September 11  -- edited by Craig R. Prentiss.; title: Terror and violence through Buddhist lenses  -- Stephen C. Berkwitz; title: Teaching through tragedy  -- Patricia Zimmerman Beckman; title: Teaching September 11  -- Elizabeth McAlister; title: Class on September 11  -- Richard Salter; title: Death and memory at Ground Zero : a historian of religion's report  -- Paul Christopher Johnson; title: September 11, 2001 and Islam -- Zayn Kassam.