The Ontological Turn’s New Animists and the Concept of Belief
The purpose of this article is threefold: first, to demonstrate ways in which new materialist scholarship has been underappreciated in religious studies, particularly with regard to its complications of belief talk; second, to suggest how this underappreciation is, in part, due to a prior misunderst...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2023
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The journal of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 103, Issue: 3, Pages: 257-282 |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this article is threefold: first, to demonstrate ways in which new materialist scholarship has been underappreciated in religious studies, particularly with regard to its complications of belief talk; second, to suggest how this underappreciation is, in part, due to a prior misunderstanding of what is "new" about new materialism; and third, to explore underrealized constructive resources posed by thinking with new animism and the closely related ontological turn in anthropology that can help scholars of religion engage difference without resorting to belief-talk. |
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| ISSN: | 1549-6538 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/723755 |