Introducing ReligionEssays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith
Edited by: Willi Braun, Russell T. McCutcheon
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PAPERBACK PUBLISHED JULY 2009
To mark the contribution of one of the most influential theorists of religion, thirty-one leading scholars of religion from around the world put their minds together to work on problems of introducing “religion”: as a category of human social practices, as a term that must be subject to scholarly theorizing, as a subject that must be carefully presented to students in the classroom. The claim of this volume is that the disciplined, cross-cultural and comparative study and teaching of religion in the academy is closely tied to the multi-level task of “introducing” (in the Latin sense of introducere) religion, of taking religion inside the academic discourses in the humanities and social sciences, of taking students – whether career academics or college students – inside religion as a set of ordinary human practices rather than initiating them into a sanctum of extraordinary knowledge about extraordinary things.
PAPERBACK PUBLISHED JULY 2009
To mark the contribution of one of the most influential theorists of religion, thirty-one leading scholars of religion from around the world put their minds together to work on problems of introducing “religion”: as a category of human social practices, as a term that must be subject to scholarly theorizing, as a subject that must be carefully presented to students in the classroom. The claim of this volume is that the disciplined, cross-cultural and comparative study and teaching of religion in the academy is closely tied to the multi-level task of “introducing” (in the Latin sense of introducere) religion, of taking religion inside the academic discourses in the humanities and social sciences, of taking students – whether career academics or college students – inside religion as a set of ordinary human practices rather than initiating them into a sanctum of extraordinary knowledge about extraordinary things.
Contents
Preface
Introducing Smith
Russell T. McCutcheon
Cargo Cult Science and the Study of Religions: Genealogy in an Age of Globalization
Gregory D. Alles (Western Maryland College)
Redescribing Maṇḍalas: A Test Case in Bodh Gayā, India
James B. Apple
The Gospel of Mark as Reflection on Exile and Identity
William E. Arnal (University of Regina)
“Map-maker, Map-maker, Make Me a Map”: Redescribing Greco-Roman ‘Elective Social Formations’
Richard S. Ascough (Queens University, Kingston, Canada)
Belief: A Classificatory Lacuna and Disciplinary “Problem”
Catherine Bell (Santa Clara University)
An Occasion for Thought
Ron Cameron (Wesleyan University)
Comparing Prayer: On Science, Universals, and the Human Condition
Armin W. Geertz (University of Aarhus)
On How Making Differences Makes a Difference
Jeppe Sinding Jensen (University of Aarhus)
Deconstructing the Eliadean Paradigm: Symbol
Darlene M. Juschka (University of Regina, Canada)
Comparison: Categories, Methods, and Mischiefs
Karen King (Harvard University)
Insiders and Outsiders: Studying Hinduism Non-Religiously?
P. Pratap Kumar (University of KwaZulu Natal)
Smith, Derrida, and Amos
Francis Landy (University of Alberta)
Imagination Bound and Unbound
E. Thomas Lawson (Western Michigan University)
Telling the Truth Can Be Dangerous Business
Gary Lease (UC Santa Cruz)
Finding One’s Place: Magic, Science, Religion, and Interdisciplinarity
Christopher Lehrich (Boston University)
Is it Meaningful to Speak of a Greco-Roman Diaspora Judaism? A Case Study in Taxonomical Issues in the Study of Ancient Judaism
Jack Lightstone (Brock University, Canada)
Think Globally, Get Death Threats Locally: The Politics of Studying Hinduism
J. E. Llewellyn (Missouri State University)
Sacred Persistence?
Burton Mack (Claremont School of Theology, California, retired)
Reader as Producer: Jonathan Z. Smith on Exegesis, Ingenuity, Elaboration
Tomoko Masuzawa (University of Alberta)
What Do Rituals Do? And How Do They Do It? Cognition and the Study of Religion
Luther H. Martin (University of Vermont )
Re: Paul
Merrill P. Miller (University of North Carolina)
Rabbi Jeremiah
Jacob Neusner (Bard College, NY)
Maps, Genealogy, and Difference: Towards Recognition of Our Ambulatory Nature
Lieve Orye (University of Gent)
Hominibus vagis vitam: The Wandering of Homo Hellenisticus in an Age of Transformation
Panayotis Pachis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Connecting With Evolutionary Models: New Patterns in Comparative Religion?
William E. Paden (University of Vermont)
What a Difference Theory Makes
Hans H. Penner (Dartmouth College)
The Ontology of Religion
Stanley Stowers (Brown University)
Comparing Law Comparing Religion
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (University at Buffalo Law School)
The Scientific Study of Religion and Its Cultured Despisers
Donald Wiebe (University of Toronto)
Introducing Religion
Willi Braun
Specifications
| ISBN-10 (Hardback) | 1845532309 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781845532307 |
| Price (Hardback) | £60.00/$95.00 |
| ISBN-13 (Paperback) | 9781845536527 |
| Price (Paperback) | £19.99/$29.99 |
| Publication Date | July 2008 |
| Pages | 352 |
| Size | 234 x 156mm |
| Readership | scholarly |
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