A modest proposal on method : essaying the study of religion /

A modest proposal on method : essaying the study of religion /

A Modest Proposal on Method further documents methodological and institutional failings in the academic study of religion. This collection of essays-which includes three previously unpublished chapters-identifies the manner in which old problems (like the presumption that our object of study is a sp...

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Main Author: McCutcheon, Russell T., 1961-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2014.

Series: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 2.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262492.

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Religion > Methodology.
Religion > Study and teaching.

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Call Number: BL41 .M353 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Plus ça change...
  • Introduction: A Modest Proposal on Method
  • Introduction: I Have a Hunch
  • Introduction: Myth
  • Introduction: Introducing Smith
  • Introduction: How to Give Up the Bible, and Learn to Love It Again
  • Introduction: "Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead?" (Luke 24: 5)
  • Introduction: A Response to Donald Wiebe from an East-Going Zax
  • Introduction: "And That's Why No One Takes the Humanities Seriously"
  • Introduction: It Could be Different: Reinventing the Study of Religion in Alabama
  • Afterword
  • References
  • Index.