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The Proper Study of Religion - After Jonathan Z. Smith (Hardcover)
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The Proper Study of Religion - After Jonathan Z. Smith (Hardcover)
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The first generation of the proper academic study of religion might
be said to span the half century from 1963 to 2013. Supreme Court
Justice Clark's 1963 opinion clarifying that any liberal "education
is not complete without a study of comparative religion or the
history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of
civilization" allowed the legal teaching of religion in secular
universities. The end of the first generation might be marked by
the 2013 retirement of Professor Jonathan Z. Smith (1938-2017) from
the University of Chicago where he had taught since 1968. Arguably
no scholar has made a greater contribution than did Smith to
establishing a proper academic study of religion. In The Proper
Study of Religion, Sam Gill charts an innovative course of
development for the academic study of religion by creatively
engaging the legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith, Gill's teacher and mentor
for fifty years. Their careers coincided with the explosive
expansion of the study of religion in secular universities in the
US that began in the mid-1960s. Using an engaging narrative style,
Gill builds on Smith's work exploring an extensive range of
absorbing and foundational topics including: comparison as
essential to academic technique and to human knowledge itself; the
important role of experience, richly understood, both to academic
studies of religion and to religions as lived; play,
philosophically understood, as a core dynamic of Smith's entire
program; the relationship of academic document-based studies to the
sensory-rich real world of religions; and self-moving as providing
a biological and philosophical foundation on which to develop and
expand upon a proper academic study of religion. The foregrounding
of human self-movement, new to the study of religion, is informed
by Gill's experience as a dancer and student of dancing in cultures
around the world. This book honors the work of an unforgettable
giant of a man while also offering critical assessments and
innovative ideas in the effort to advance the remarkable legacy of
Jonathan Z. Smith.
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