The Who, Why, and What of Religion - and Its Study
This review article examines two recent books that each adopt different stands on the contributions to be made by theory - or perhaps better, metatheory - in the study of religion. For while one aims to cultivate the role of the scholar as being a bit of a scandalous fool, the other strongly encoura...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Review |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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University of Chicago Press
2023
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History of religions
Année: 2023, Volume: 63, Numéro: 1, Pages: 120-134 |
| Compte rendu de: | Who owns religion? (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019) (McCutcheon, Russell T.)
Why study religion? (New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2021) (McCutcheon, Russell T.) |
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| Résumé: | This review article examines two recent books that each adopt different stands on the contributions to be made by theory - or perhaps better, metatheory - in the study of religion. For while one aims to cultivate the role of the scholar as being a bit of a scandalous fool, the other strongly encourages colleagues to adopt an interpretive method that, or so it is claimed, contributes to solving a variety of pressing societal problems. |
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| ISSN: | 1545-6935 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: History of religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/725410 |