Why Study Religion?

ISBN-13: 9780197566817 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 384 str.

Richard B. Miller

Recenzje

Miller's book is a major contribution to the critical study of leading methods in the field of Religious Studies. But the heart of the book, and where it really shines, is in its extension of the 'normative turn' in religious studies. Miller wants us to look beyond our obsession with method and to leave behind the scholarly ideal of 'value neutrality' and instead ask ourselves why we should study religious people, ideas, practices, and artifacts. His own answer to this question, which frames religious studies as a form of 'critical humanism,' is as persuasive as it is provocative. It is an answer that takes us beyond the study of religion to the humanities and to the question of what it is to be a thinking, responsible actor in the world.

O autorze

Richard B. Miller is a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Religion, Politics, and Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture, and the award-winning Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition; Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning; and Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought.