Dialogues on Religion—and its Study
A Critical Edition
Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-36355-4 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-36355-4 (ISBN)
This volume presents readers with a selection of key, field-wide and, importantly, ongoing debates coupled with some of the most important up-and-coming voices on the scene. It is designed to orient readers in an engaging and readable format, to the debates that have long defined—and some would say, plagued—the academic study of religion.
Dialogues on Religion—and its Study creatively revives a time-honored genre by offering a series of new speeches on religion (its definition, description, comparison, and explanation) between two old friends who periodically meet throughout the year. Eventually working their way to examining why we tend to call part of our world and our experiences religious, nonspecialist readers can eavesdrop on their conversations, gaining entry to a series of timely, interesting, and sometimes surprisingly complex topics—which all begins with one of them coming across a curious news story on their phone.
Treating these dialogues as if they were found objects, the book then also joins in a long tradition of critical editions by offering a scholarly introduction to the speeches along with a detailed commentary on both the technical items mentioned as well as the various cultural references that our speakers find to be familiar and then use to think through material that’s rather new—at the same time providing clues as to their identities and location. Written in the vernacular, with a helpful postface that some may wish to read first, Dialogues on Religion—and its Study is original, engaging, and at times funny while always meeting readers where they sometimes are: just a little intrigued by something they’ve discovered and wishing that they could discuss it with a good friend, maybe meeting for coffee or over breakfast at a diner.
Dialogues on Religion—and its Study creatively revives a time-honored genre by offering a series of new speeches on religion (its definition, description, comparison, and explanation) between two old friends who periodically meet throughout the year. Eventually working their way to examining why we tend to call part of our world and our experiences religious, nonspecialist readers can eavesdrop on their conversations, gaining entry to a series of timely, interesting, and sometimes surprisingly complex topics—which all begins with one of them coming across a curious news story on their phone.
Treating these dialogues as if they were found objects, the book then also joins in a long tradition of critical editions by offering a scholarly introduction to the speeches along with a detailed commentary on both the technical items mentioned as well as the various cultural references that our speakers find to be familiar and then use to think through material that’s rather new—at the same time providing clues as to their identities and location. Written in the vernacular, with a helpful postface that some may wish to read first, Dialogues on Religion—and its Study is original, engaging, and at times funny while always meeting readers where they sometimes are: just a little intrigued by something they’ve discovered and wishing that they could discuss it with a good friend, maybe meeting for coffee or over breakfast at a diner.
Russell T. McCutcheon is widely published in the academic study of religion, its methods, theories, and the field’s history; he is University Research Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, U.S.A.
Introduction to the Critical Edition On Dating the Dialogues and Identifying the Speakers 1. The Definition of Religion 2. The Description of Religion 3. The Comparison of Religion 4. The Explanation of Religion 5. The Category of Religion Critical Notes A Truthful Postface Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.10.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-36355-X / 103236355X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-36355-4 / 9781032363554 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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