EUR  â¬69.63EUR  â¬66.00 excl. VAT
A Modest Proposal on Method
Essaying the Study of Religion
Series:
Author:
A Modest Proposal on Method further documents methodological and institutional failings in the academic study of religion. This collection of essays identifies the manner in which old problems (like the presumption that our object of study is a special, deeply meaningful case) yet remain in the field. But amidst the critique there are a variety of practical suggestions for how the science of religion can become methodologically even-handed and self-reflexiveâthe markings of a historically rigorous exercise. Each chapter is introduced and contextualized by a newly written, substantive introduction.
Russell T. McCutcheon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. Onetime editor of Brill's journal, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (MTSR), he has written or edited/co-edited a wide variety of books and resources on the practice of the study of religion.
See the interview by Kristian Petersen of Marginalia Radio with Professor Russell McCutcheon, Chair of Religious Studies, University of Alabama, about his new book, A Modest Proposal on Method: Essaying the Study of Religion.
Acknowledgments Sources Preface Introduction ââPlus ça change⦠1 Introduction âA Modest Proposal on Method 2 Introduction âI Have a Hunch 3 Introduction âMyth 4 Introduction âIntroducing Smith 5 Introduction âHow to Give Up the Bible, and Learn to Love It Again 6 Introduction ââWhy Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead?â (Luke 24: 5) 7 Introduction âA Response to Donald Wiebe from an East-Going Zax 8 Introduction ââAnd Thatâs Why No One Takes the Humanities Seriouslyâ 9 Introduction âIt Could be Different ââReinventing the Study of Religion in Alabama Afterword References Index
English-reading scholars of religion and students of comparative religion/religious studies throughout the world.