Although many would today argue that the onetime dominance of the
phenomenology of religion has receded, and with it the traditional
approach to studying religion as a unique and deeply-felt
experience that defies explanation, the essays collected here take
quite the opposite stand: that this approach has merely been
re-branded and continues to characterize much work being done in
the field today. Offering a different way forward-one that is based
on experiences gained by the members of the Department of Religious
Studies at the University of Alabama, a program that has
successfully reinvented itself over the past 20 years-the book
includes a variety of practical suggestions for how members of
Religious Studies departments can revise their approach to studying
and teaching about religion. Seeing religion instead as mundane but
always exemplary of basic social elements found all across
cultures, the volume argues that the way forward for this field
lies not in the specialness of its object of study but, instead,
the fact that thinking and acting as if something is special is
itself an ordinary aspect of history and culture. Making just this
shift helps the scholar of religion to contribute to wide,
interdisciplinary conversations all across the Humanities and
Social Sciences, demonstrating the practical relevance of their
work.
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