Remembering J. Z. Smith - A Career and its Consequence - Emily D. Crews
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Remembering J. Z. Smith - A Career and its Consequence - Emily D. Crews
Emily D. Crews [+]
University of Chicago Divinity School
Emily D. Crews is the Executive Director of the Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She earned her Ph.D. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago Divinity School and uses historical and ethnographic methods to make sense of the ways that religion, gender, and the reproductive body are entangled in the formation of personhood.
Description
In the Afterword, Emily D. Crews draws on her experiences with Jonathan Z. Smith at the University of Chicago Divinity School to ask what Smith’s legacy might be for current and future scholars of religion. She offers three lessons that she learned from Smith’s work and that she hopes others may learn, as well.