Method Today - Redescribing Approaches to the Study of Religion - Brad Stoddard
11. In Pursuit of a Pushier Study of Those Words we Like to Put in Quotes
Method Today - Redescribing Approaches to the Study of Religion - Brad Stoddard
Neil George [+]
York University
Neil George is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Humanities at York University. His research focuses on discourses of science, religion, and the secular.
Description
Goldenberg’s “pushier critique” rightly places an emphasis on the importance of ‘governance’ for understanding the category ‘religion’ in various historical and geographical locations. It is not clear, however, that “institutions of government” play a major role in constructing and maintaining ‘religion,’ or that either “vestigial states” or ‘violence’ are as central for theorizing ‘religion’ as has been suggested.