Remembering J. Z. Smith - A Career and its Consequence - Emily D. Crews
23. Significant, Significance, Signifier
Remembering J. Z. Smith - A Career and its Consequence - Emily D. Crews
Ipsita Chatterjea [+]
Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline workshop
Ipsita Chatterjea is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline workshop (SORAAAD). Her research is focused on gender, race, and class as well as regulation and violence.
Description
In this essay, originally a post published on the author’s personal blog, Chatterjea discusses the promise of the work of Jonathan Z. Smith for current and future scholars of religion. She challenges those thinking, writing, and teaching about religion not to revere Jonathan Z. Smith, but to “find him useful.”