The End of the World As We Know It? Apocalypticism, Interdisciplinarity, and the Study of Religion

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com - IT IS A PLEASURE TO JOIN the conversation in this roundtable, and to see that interest in critical environmental...

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Subtitles:Roundtable on climate destiabilization and the study of religion
Main Author: King, Sarah J. 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2015]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 83, Issue: 2, Pages: 422-431
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Summary:© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com - IT IS A PLEASURE TO JOIN the conversation in this roundtable, and to see that interest in critical environmental issues such as climate change is burgeoning in the AAR. I have found the articles in this roundtable to be insightful, challenging, and infuriating, as I find with most good scholarship. I hope that other readers find the same. I appreciate this opportunity to respond to, and add to, the discussion taking place within the roundtable. In my response, I highlight and reflect on two key questions raised by the roundtable's discussion, questions which are at play within our larger field as it confronts global environmental change. First, “Does global climate change spell the end of the world, or (just) the end of religious studies?...
ISSN:1477-4585
Contains:Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfv025