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March 29, 2017
Religious Studies, Theology, and the University: Conflicting Maps, Changing Terrain
- Author
- Cady, Linell E. and Delwin Brown, eds.
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
- ISBN
- 079145522X
- Table of Contents
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Preface
ch. 1 Introduction (Linell E. Cady and Delwin Brown)
ch. 2 The Study of Religion as an Anthropology of Credibility (Russell T. McCutcheon)
ch. 3 Why "Theology" Won't Work (Ivan Strenski)
ch. 4 Our Subject "Over There?" Scrutinizing the Distance Between Religion and Its Study (Christopher Chesnek)
ch. 5 Other People's Theologies: The New Hubris of History of Religions (Richard C. Martin)
ch. 6 Embodied Theology (Sam Gill)
ch. 7 From Theology to theology: The Place of "God-Talk" in Religious Studies (William D. Hart)
ch. 8 Territorial Disputes: Religious Studies and Theology in Transition (Linell E. Cady)
ch. 9 Academic Theology in the University or Why an Ex-Queen's Heir Should Be Made a Subject (Delwin Brown)
ch. 10 Rethinking Theology and Religious Studies(Sheila Greeve Davaney)
ch. 11 Religious Studies and the Alienation of Theology (Darrell J. Fasching)
ch. 12 The Place of Academic Theology in the Study of Religion from the Perspective of Liberal Education (Paula M. Cooey)
ch. 13 The Epistemic Publicity of Academic Black Theology (Frederick L. Ware)
ch. 14 Theology and Cultural Contest in the University (Kathryn Tanner)
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
This collection explores the highly contested relationship of religious studies and theology and the place of each, if any, in secular institutions of higher education. The founding narrative of religious studies, with its sharp distinction between teaching religion and teaching about religion, grows less compelling in the face of globalization and the erosion of modernism. These essays take up the challenge of thinking through the identity and borders of religious studies and theology for our time. Reflecting a broad range of positions, the authors explore the religious/secular conceptual landscape that has dominated the modern West, and in the process address the revision of the academic study of religion and theology now underway. (From the Publisher)