Religious Studies and the Goal of Interdisciplinarity (Routledge Focus on Religion)

Synopsis

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 religious studies as a field. Firstly, it looks at the history of the development of religious studies in academia, as seen through an interdisciplinary critique of the university as an epistemological project. It then uses the same interdisciplinary critique to develop a foundation for a 21st-century hermeneutic, one which uses the classical concepts reprised by that interdisciplinary critique and retools the field for the 21st century. Setting out both the objects of religious studies as a subject and the techniques used to employ the study of those objects, this book offers an invaluable perspective on the progress of the field. It will, therefore, be of great use to scholars of research methods within religious studies.

Copyright:

2019

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780429671128

Related ISBNs:

9780429019685, 9780367029449, 9780367029449

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

09/06/19

Copyrighted By:

Brent Smith. The right of Brent Smith to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Education, Philosophy, Sociology

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