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'Religion' in Theory and Practice - Demystifying the Field for Burgeoning Academics (Hardcover)
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'Religion' in Theory and Practice - Demystifying the Field for Burgeoning Academics (Hardcover)
Series: NAASR Working Papers
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"Religion" in Theory and Practice follows on from McCutcheon's 2014
Equinox book Entanglements: Marking Place in the Field of Religion
by offering both an overview of the current state of theory in the
academic study of religion as well as examining a variety of
practical sites where critical scholarship is implemented but also
challenged. Although addressed to early career scholars--taking one
reviewer of Entanglements seriously by adding to the meager genre
of books directed toward these important readers--the volume should
also be of interest to anyone curious about why many in the study
of religion continue to assume that their object of study needs
special attention. The first section outlines McCutcheon's broader
and more recent thoughts on the current state of the field (such as
the claims, by some, that the field is now "post-theory") while the
second section applies the first at a variety of discrete sites
within the profession. These include how we approach teaching the
introductory course, the work carried out in professional
associations and conferences, the ongoing problem of contingent
labor and what faculty might be able to do about it, the challenge
of talking about what a theoretically-engaged scholar of religion
actually does, and the varied audiences and readers who we can now
try to reach with our work. Drawing on previously published, but
revised, material for four of the ten chapters, the volume invites
readers to step back from their own individual, specialized work so
as to consider some of the wider structures in which the wider
field exists and where all of our work is carried out.
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