Brent Smith

Religious Studies and the Goal of Interdisciplinarity

• Broschiertes 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: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9780367784362
• ISBN-10: 036778436X
• Artikelnr.: 61210475

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