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Title |
Title of document |
9. Response: Intercepted Dispatches: A Speculative History of the Future of Religious Studies - On the Subject of Religion |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Rebekka King; Middle Tennessee State University; Canada |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies |
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Keyword(s) |
academic study of religion; Jonathan Z. Smith; method of religion; religious data; society and religion; theory of religion |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
academic study of religion |
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Description |
Abstract |
Set 37 years in the future, this paper is a work of speculative, epistolary fiction. It imagines a world in which the impulse to transform the study of religion into a professional and bureaucratic discipline vis-à-vis religious literacy and its impact on civic health and workplace proficiency has become the animating purpose of religious studies. As a result, the need for professional experts in religious studies has sky-rocketed with a multitude of positions in the private sector, government, and census work. The unnamed author of the letter writes to a young protégé to explain that the study of religion used to be an academic venture and describes key events in the early decades of the twenty-first century that led to its shift to a pragmatic field tasked with promoting governmental surveillance. The piece implies that scholars aligned with the NAASR approach to religion studies have been forced underground and a network of rogue scholars continue the “work of historical, critical, and social scientific approaches to the study of religion, as well as a relentlessly reflexive critique of the theories, methods, and categories used in such study. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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04-Oct-2022 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/41079 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.41079 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; On the Subject of Religion |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |