Religious Studies and the Goal of Interdisciplinarity

ISBN-13: 9780367029449 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 112 str.

Brent Smith

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Brent Smith is an Associate Professor in the Liberal Studies Department at Grand Valley State University, USA.