Historicizing and Deconstructing âReligionâ: A Short Overview of a Persisting Problem

Nickolas P. Roubekas

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Historicizing and Deconstructing âReligionâ: A Short Overview of a Persisting Problem

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Pages:: 19â33

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657790258_003

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In the last decades, scholars of the academic study of religion have vigorously called for a critical study of the very subject matter of the field, viz. âreligion.â As the argument goes, âreligionâ as a taxon is proven to be inadequate, problematic, and occasionally harmful as a scholarly classificatory tool. This essay offers a brief overview of the said problematization by focusing on some recent works by scholars primarily working within the Anglophone world â whence most such representatives come from. The essay identifies two pivots in such argumentations and debates, namely, the historicization and the deconstruction of âreligionâ â with some scholars calling for a possible reconstruction of the term.

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Transformation of Religion

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Series:Â Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society, Volume: 25

E-Book ISBN:: 9783657790258

Publisher:: Brill | SchÃ¶ningh

Print Publication Date:: 18 Apr 2023

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