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Writing religion : the case for the critical study of religion /
In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Wri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2015]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Theodore Louis Trost and Steven Leonard Jacobs
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Writing, Riting, and Righting in the Critical Study of Religion / Steven W. Ramey
- I. Writing Discourses
- 1. God Save This Honorable Court: Religion and Civic Discourse / Jonathan Z. Smith
- 2. An Early Moment in the Discourse of "Terrorism": Reflections on a Tale from Marco Polo / Bruce Lincoln
- 3. "A Storm on the Horizon": Discomforting Democracy and the Feeling of Fairness / Ann Pellegrini
- II. Riting Social Formations
- 4. Fear of Small Numbers / Arjun Appadurai
- 5. Developing a Critical Consciousness: Feminist Studies in Religion / Judith Plaskow
- 6. Religious Practices and Communal Identity of Cochin Jews: Models, Metaphors, and Methods of Diasporic Religious Acculturation / Nathan Katz
- 7. Regarding Origin: Beginnings, Foundations, and the Bicameral Formation of the Study of Religion / Tomoko Masuzawa
- 8. De-Judaizing Jesus: Theological Need and Exegetical Execution / Amy-Jill Levine
- 9. How to Theorize with a Hammer, or, On the Destruction and Reconstruction of Islamic Studies / Aaron W. Hughes
- 10. Personal Self-Disclosure, Religious Studies Pedagogy, and the Skeptical Mission of the Public University / Martin S. Jaffee
- Afterword: Reinventing the Study of Religion in Alabama / Russell T. McCutcheon
- Works Cited
- Contributors
- Index.