EAN: 9783110995510

ON MAKING A SHIFT IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION AND ...

Although many would today argue that the onetime dominance of the phenomenology of religion has
receded  and with it the traditional approach to studying religion as a unique and deeply-felt
experience that defies explanation  the essays collected here take quite the opposite stand:
that this approach has merely been re-branded and continues to characterize much work being
done in the field today. Offering a different way forward-one that is based on experiences
gained by the members of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama  a
program that has successfully reinvented itself over the past 20 years-the book includes a
variety of practical suggestions for how members of Religious Studies departments can revise
their approach to studying and teaching about religion. Seeing religion instead as mundane but
always exemplary of basic social elements found all across cultures  the volume argues that the
way forward for this field lies not in the specialness of its object of study but  instead  the
fact that thinking and acting as if something is special is itself an ordinary aspect of
history and culture. Making just this shift helps the scholar of religion to contribute to wide
interdisciplinary conversations all across the Humanities and Social Sciences  demonstrating
the practical relevance of their work.

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