William E Arnal, Willi Braun, Russell T Mccutcheon

Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion presents a provocative critique of the unwillingness of modern scholars to publically distinguish research into comparative religion from confessional studies written within denominationally-affiliated institutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781138110205
• ISBN-10: 1138110205
• Artikelnr.: 50447145

Autorenporträt

William Arnal is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Willi Braun is Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, Canada. Russell T. McCutcheon is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. The Nerve of Donald Wiebe Luther H. Martin, University of
Vermont 2. The Failure of Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion Donald
Wiebe, Trinity College, University of Toronto General Failures 3. Catching
Up with Marx: Truth, Myth, and the Niceties of "Belief" Matthew Day,
Florida State University 4. Fixed Geomorphologies and the Shifting Sands of
Time Darlene Juschka, University of Regina 5. A Critical History of
Religion as a Psychological Phenomenon Janet Klippenstein, University of
Alberta 6. Everything Old is New Again Russell T. McCutcheon 7. Revisiting
the Confessional: Donald Wiebe's "Small 'c' Confessional," Its Historical
Entailments and Linguistic Entanglements Johannes C. Wolfart, Carleton
University Special Failures 8. Failures (of Nerve?) in the Study of Islamic
Origins Herbert Berg, University of North Carolina at Wilmington 9. The
Failure of Islamic Studies Post-9/11: A Contextualization and Analysis
Aaron W. Hughes, State University of New York at Buffalo 10. Religious
Studies that Really Schmecks: Introducing Food to the Academic Study of
Religion Michel Desjardins, Wilfrid Laurier University 11. Cultural
Anthropology and Corinthian Food Fights: Structure and History in the
Lord's Dinner John W. Parrish, Brown University 12. The Identity of Q in
the First Century: Reproducing a Theological Narrative Sarah E. Rollens,
University of Toronto 13. The Failure of Nerve to Recognize Violence in
Early Christianity: The Case of the Parable of the Assassin Thomas Nicholas
Schonhoffer, University of Toronto 14. Redescribing Iconoclasm: Holey
Frescoes and Identity Formation Vaia Touna, University of Alberta In Lieu
of Conclusion 15. The Irony of Religion William Arnal and Willi Braun