Remembering J. Z. Smith - A Career and its Consequence - Emily D. Crews

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.
Russell T. McCutcheon [+-]
University of Alabama
Russell T. McCutcheon is University Research Professor and, for 18 years, was the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He has written on problems in the academic labor market throughout his 30-year career and helped to design and run Alabama’s skills-based M.A. in religion in culture. Among his recent work is the edited resource for instructors, Teaching in Religious Studies and Beyond (Bloomsbury 2024).

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Constituting an archive of remembrances of the person and the contributions of the late Jonathan Z. Smith (1938-2017), section one this volume collects previously unpublished papers from three separate scholarly panels from the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the North American Association for the Study of Religion in which a wide variety of scholars reflect on the impact Smith had on their own careers and the field at large. Section two includes revised versions of blog posts, many of which appeared shortly after news of Smith’s death, in which scholars, journalists, and onetime students of Smith offer a more intimate and personal look at his legacy. The volume closes with the extended transcripts of seven interviews about Smith carried out with those who either trained or worked with him followed by a brief, previously unpublished essay by Smith himself. Taken together, the volume documents the role Smith’s work has played in the modern field while providing a basis for further considering the future direction of the field.

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Crews, Emily; McCutcheon, Russell. Index. Remembering J. Z. Smith - A Career and its Consequence. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 227-238 Nov 2020. ISBN 9781781799697. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=42130. Date accessed: 24 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.42130. Nov 2020

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