Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities

Using Burton L. Mack’s work in Christian origins and its subsequent influence across the field as an example, this essay argues for a form of scholarship in which working on shared problems and curiosities, across seemingly discrete content specialties, is seen as an expertise to be cultivated among...

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Main Author: McCutcheon, Russell T. 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 35, Issue: 5, Pages: 478-494
Further subjects:B Burton Mack
B Origins
B Specialization
B generalist
B Social formation
B mythmaking
B Christian Origins
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Summary:Using Burton L. Mack’s work in Christian origins and its subsequent influence across the field as an example, this essay argues for a form of scholarship in which working on shared problems and curiosities, across seemingly discrete content specialties, is seen as an expertise to be cultivated among scholars in the study of religion.
ISSN:1570-0682
Contains:Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700682-bja10101