Theology, Religious Studies and the Secular Academy: Rhetoric and the Control of Meanings
The debates among academics over whether Religious Studies belongs within Faculties of Theology, the Social Sciences or The Humanities is a distraction from a more fundamental issue, which is the pervasive and largely unquestioned assumption that religious experiences, practices and institutions are...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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2007
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Temenos
Année: 2007, Volume: 43, Numéro: 2, Pages: 151-172 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Theology
B Secular B State B Religion B Politics B sacred and profane |
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| Résumé: | The debates among academics over whether Religious Studies belongs within Faculties of Theology, the Social Sciences or The Humanities is a distraction from a more fundamental issue, which is the pervasive and largely unquestioned assumption that religious experiences, practices and institutions are universally distinct in kind and essentially separate from non-religious ones. Theologians and non-theologians alike have contributed to constructing a modern discourse on ‘religion’ and ‘religions’ that tacitly embeds its distinction from ‘non-religious’ or ‘secular’ practices. What is assumed as a commonplace is best understood as a rhetorical construction, which historically has had the ideological function of subverting a much older understanding of ‘religion’ that inhibited class mobility and the growth of capital- ist institutions. The most notable feature of the study of ‘religions’ lies in the tacitly distinct and embedded ‘secular’ or non-religious ground from which the study is assumed to be conducted. It was this wider rhetoric that made possible a basic part of the warp and woof of modern consciousness, the non-religious state and the ubiquitous arena of ‘secular politics’. |
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| ISSN: | 2342-7256 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Temenos
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.33356/temenos.7910 |