Situating JudaismIdentity, Authenticity, Scholarship
Aaron W. Hughes
Series: Religion in Culture:Studies in Social Contest & Construction Hardback Price £45.00/$85.00 Paperback Price £14.99/$28.95 |    |
Description
This book examines the tensions between the theoretical study of religion, the representation of Judaism, and the political ramifications that not only create and sustain, but also emerge from these activities in order to think about the complex and understudied web of identity, authenticity, and scholarship. Primary interest is in the types of theoretical issues that relate to the practitioner-scholar and academic-non-academic interface, and how these issues bear on the academic study of religion. Situating Judaism represents one of the first attempts to address some of the crucial and critical issues within the academic study of Judaism through the prism provided by critical discourses in the study of religion. At the same time, it appreciates and acknowledges that the interdisciplinarity of Jewish Studies, and often its willingness to be reductionist when it comes to religion, has much to offer the academic study of religion. In so doing this book tries to facilitate points of contact between the two objects of study with an eye to how each can potentially illumine the other.
This book examines the tensions between the theoretical study of religion, the representation of Judaism, and the political ramifications that not only create and sustain, but also emerge from these activities in order to think about the complex and understudied web of identity, authenticity, and scholarship. Primary interest is in the types of theoretical issues that relate to the practitioner-scholar and academic-non-academic interface, and how these issues bear on the academic study of religion. Situating Judaism represents one of the first attempts to address some of the crucial and critical issues within the academic study of Judaism through the prism provided by critical discourses in the study of religion. At the same time, it appreciates and acknowledges that the interdisciplinarity of Jewish Studies, and often its willingness to be reductionist when it comes to religion, has much to offer the academic study of religion. In so doing this book tries to facilitate points of contact between the two objects of study with an eye to how each can potentially illumine the other.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One
Identity, Authenticity, Scholarship: Critical Reflections
Chapter Two
From Wissenschaft to Area Studies: The Emergence of Judaism as an
Academic Discipline
Chapter Three
The Excluded and Marginalized Other: Ethnicity and Scholarship
Chapter Four
Between Semitism and anti-Semitism: Religious Studies Confronts Its Inner Jew
Chapter Five
Beholden to Constituencies Outside of the Academy: The Non-Academic Presentation of Judaism
Conclusions
Specifications
| ISBN-10 (Hardback) | 1845536185 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781845536183 |
| Price (Hardback) | £45.00/$85.00 |
| ISBN-10 (Paperback) | 1845536193 |
| ISBN-13 (Paperback) | 9781845536190 |
| Price (Paperback) | £14.99/$28.95 |
| Publication Date | December 2011 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Size | 216 x 138mm |
| Readership | students, scholars |
| Book Status | Not yet published |
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