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How is religion depicted in the academic study of religion? How do private donors selectively privilege certain descriptions of religion, and to what ends? Do the practical needs of students align or conflict with the theoretical concerns of scholars? To what extent do answers to these questions reveal shared challenges or fault lines across the field of study?
Previous volumes in the NAASR Working Papers series have made critical reflections on key domains such as theory, method, data, and categories. On the Subject of Religion takes a step back to consider syncretically how religion is imagined or invented through several lenses.
On the Subject of Religion takes as its inspiration the work of the late Jonathan Z. Smith, who challenged scholars to be mindful of the ways in which they imagine religion and religious data. Building on this crucial insight, this book brings together a range of early-career and established scholars of religion to explore how various domains of society—the classroom, academic literature, public debates, and private fundraising—shape, and are shaped, by the contours of the academic study of religion.
Contents
Introduction
Patchwork or Mosaic? The Fabric of Religious Studies
James Dennis LoRusso
Part I: Teaching the Field
On the Grammar of Teaching Religious Studies
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University
Response: Can't Live with it, Can't Drop it: World Religions
Rita Lester, Nebraska Wesleyan University, and Jacob Barrett, University of Alabama
Response: Practising Theory
Ian Alexander Cuthbertson, Dawson College
Response: The Gaze from Somewhere: Teaching Situated Writing about Religion
Leonie Geiger, University of Bonn
Response: Weaponizing Religious Literacy: Religionizing as Revitalizing the Field or Reinforcing Neoliberal Values?
Martha Smith Roberts, Fullerton College
Part II: The History of the Field
The Enduring Presence of Our Pre-Critical Past Or, the Same As it
Ever Was, the Same As it Ever Was
Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama
Response: The Vocation of a Scientist of Religion
D. Jamil Grimes, Middle Tennessee State University
Response: Historicizing Endurance
Andrew Durdin, Florida State University
Response: Intercepted Dispatches: A Speculative History of the Future of Religious Studies
Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University
Part III: The Role and Influence of Private Funding in the Field
Private Money and the Study of Religion: Problems, Perils, and
Possiblities
Gregory D. Alles, McDaniel College
Response: Drugs, Dog Chow, and Dharma
Michael Altman, University of Alabama
Response: Between Wittgenstein and Zuckerberg: Selling the Academic Study of Religion in a Buyer's Market
John W. McCormack, Aurora University
Response: Religious Studies: A Pawn in the Culture Wars
Natalie Avalos, University of Colorado, Boulder
Part IV: International Perspectives on the Field
International Perspectives on/in the Field
Rosalind I. J. Hackett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Response: Field of Dreams: What Do American Scholars of Religion Really Want?
F. LeRon Shults, University of Agder, and Wesley J. Wildman, Boston University
Response: The Benefit of Compassion
Vaia Touna, University of Alabama
Response: Developing the Field
Yasmina Burezah, University of Bonn
