Brent Smith

Religious Studies and the Goal of Interdisciplinarity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a survey of the development of interdisciplinarity in Religious Studies within academia and offers ways for it to continue to progress in contemporary universities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780367029449
• ISBN-10: 0367029448
• Artikelnr.: 57601086

Autorenporträt

Brent Smith is an Associate Professor in the Liberal Studies Department at Grand Valley State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Location, Positionality, and the
Interdisciplinary Religious Studies Scholar; 1 Locating the Academic Study
of Religion: An Interdisciplinary Critique of the Epistemological
Development of the University; 2 Something Other than an "And" or an "Is":
The Overlapping Domain of the Sacred-Profane; 3 Sighting the Sacred Unseen:
A Camouflaged Order Appears; 4 Hierophany as an Interdisciplinary Concept;
5 Summary: An Interdisciplinary Scholar Residing Inside the Academic Study
of Religion