118 Pages
by
Routledge
118 Pages
by
Routledge
118 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book offers a survey of the development of interdisciplinarity in religious studies within academia and offers ways for it to continue to progress in contemporary universities. It examines the use of the term ‘interdisciplinary’ in the context of the academic study of religion and how it shapes the way scholarly work in this field has developed. The text uses two main elements to discuss... Read more
Acknowledgements; Introduction: Location, Positionality, and the Interdisciplinary Religious Studies Scholar; 1 Locating the Academic Study of Religion: An Interdisciplinary Critique of the Epistemological Development of the University; 2 Something Other than an "And" or an "Is": The Overlapping Domain of the Sacred-Profane; 3 Sighting the Sacred Unseen: A Camouflaged Order Appears; 4 Hierophany as an Interdisciplinary Concept; 5 Summary: An Interdisciplinary Scholar Residing Inside the Academic Study of Religion
Biography
Brent Smith is an Associate Professor in the Liberal Studies Department at Grand Valley State University, USA.
