On making a shift in the study of religion and other essays / Russell t. McCutcheon.
Although many would today argue that the onetime dominance of the phenomenology of religion has receded, and with it the traditional approach to studying religion as a unique and deeply-felt experience that defies explanation, the essays collected here take quite the opposite stand: that this approa...
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Sources
- Introduction
- Part I Current State
- 1 The Enduring Presence of Our Pre-Critical Past
- Part II Critical Shift
- 2 Classification Matters or, Why You Should Care About Scholarship on the Category Religion
- 3 Shifting From Experience to the Discourse on Experience
- 4 "There's No Original in This Business"
- 5 What Happens After the Deconstruction?
- Part III Institutional Implications
- 6 Theses on Creating Successful Religion Programs in an Anti-Humanities Age.
- 7 Growth, Identity, and Branding: An Interview with Religious Studies News
- 8 Reinventing the Study of Religion in Alabama: An Overview
- 9 Learning to Code: Digital Pebbles and Institutional Ripples
- 10 On Making a Shift in the Study of Religion
- Afterword: Five Examples
- Index.