05557cam a2200601Mu 4500 ocn893741029 OCoLC 20200709060246.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 141025s2014 enk ob 001 0 eng d EBLCP eng EBLCP N$T 9781317546634 electronic bk. 1317546636 electronic bk. (OCoLC)893741029 877472 (N$T) BL41 .R357 2014 REL 017000 bisacsh REL 113000 bisacsh REL 054000 bisacsh 200.71 23 N$TA Reinventing Religious Studies [electronic resource] : Key Writings in the History of a Discipline. London ; New York : Routledge, 2014. 1 online resource (297 p.) Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. For such a time as this: the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion, 1969-2009; Part I: Inventing and reinventing the field of religious studies; 2. Why a Council on the Study of Religion?; 3. Ironies; 4. Religious studies: the next vocation; 5. Impressions from Wingspread: religious studies-the state of the art; 6. History of religions; 7. The future of religious studies: moving beyond the mandate of the 1960s; 8. Naming the game: a question of the field; Part II: Method and theory in religious studies 9. Neutrality in the study of religion10. Assessing social-scientific theories of religion; 11. Playing hardball in religious studies; 12. The academic study of religion: a methodological reflection; 13. Fending off the social sciences; Part III: Teaching religion; 14. Confessions of a former establishment fundamentalist; 15. Confessing away the soul with the sins, or the risks of Uncle Tomism among the humanists: a reply to Robert Bellah; 16. Criteria for organizing the introductory course in religion 17. Teaching about religion at the state university: taking the issue seriously and strictly18. Teaching about religion at the state university: a reply; 19. Teaching about religion at the religiously affiliated university: taking the issue seriously and strictly-a reply to Robert Baird and Robert Minor; Part IV: Women and the bible in religious studies; 20. For the advancement of my career: a form critical study in the art of acknowledgement; 21. Women's studies in religion; 22. The debut of the Bible as a pagan classic; 23. Bible and religion Part V: Religion and religious studies in civic life24. Contemporary socio-political change and the work of religious studies; 25. The scholar of religion as a cultural critic: perspectives from Denmark; 26. What are the humanities and why do they matter? The case of religion and public life; 27. Response to Gary Lease's "What are the humanities, and why do they matter?"; 28. So, what are we professing here? Religion, the liberal arts, and civic life; 29. Response to Raymond B. Williams's "So, what are we professing here? Religion, the liberal arts, and civic life" 30. Response to Raymond B. Williams's "So, what are we professing here? Religion, the liberal arts, and civic life"31. Response to Raymond B. Williams's "So, what are we professing here? Religion, the liberal arts, and civic life"; 32. Rejoinder; Part VI: Religious studies and identity politics; 33. Late capitalism arrives on campus: making and remaking the study of religion; 34. Religious studies and identity politics: mythology in the making; 35. Toward an engaged religious studies; 36. The study of religion under late capitalism, or commodity triumphant; Part VII: Islam and 9/11 37. On the teaching of Islam in America ""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 irreve. Religion -- Methodology. Religion -- Study and teaching. RELIGION / Comparative Religion bisacsh RELIGION / Essays bisacsh RELIGION / Reference bisacsh Religion Study and teaching History. Manners and customs. Social history. Religious literature History and criticism. Electronic books. Elliott, Scott S. Print version: Elliott, Scott S. Reinventing Religious Studies : Key Writings in the History of a Discipline Hoboken : Taylor and Francis,c2014 9781844656554 http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=1821351 Ebook Library EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=877472 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL1821351 EBSCOhost EBSC 877472 cpp91024 02 N$T 55641 55641