Method and theory in the study of religion : : working papers from Hannover / / edited by Steffen Führding.

• Superior document: Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Volume 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Führding, Steffen, 1981-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Method & theory in the study of religion ; Volume 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Introduction: Theory, Method, Hannover, and the Study of Religion /; Comparison, Practice, and Meaning: Martin Riesebrodt’s Theory of Religion /; A Plea for the Study of Religions /; Study of Religions in the Era of Globalization of Differences: The Concept of Agonistic Context /; “Man is the Measure of All Things…”: On The Fabrication of Oriental Religions by European History of Religions* /; Will the Real Fundamentalist Please Stand? Scholars and the Category of ‘Fundamentalism’ /; The Ideology of Religious Studies Revisited: The Problem with Politics /; Christian Origins and the Gospel of Mark /; God as Hypothesis: Daniel Paul Schreber and the Study of Religion /; RS-Based RE – Uphill, Uphill, and Uphill!* /; The Study of Islamic Education, A Litmus Test on State Relations to Muslim Minorities /; Afterword: The Academic Study of Religions betwixt and between Different Interests /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004347879
• ISSN: 2214-3270
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Steffen Führding.

Since the downfall of the phenomenology of religion as the leading paradigm in the study of religion in the 1960s, theoretical and methodological discussions surrounding the nature and identity of the study of religion as an academic discipline have proliferated. The essays included in this volume approach these debates from a variety of angles. Based on a series of talks held at the University of Hannover over the last few years, the essays are intended to be understood as diagnostic works in progress and thus as working papers, all of which strive to point out important problems and perspectives in the field of theories and methodology and to draw attention to the future of the discipline. Using developments in Hanover as a launch pad, the volume forms the basis for further insights into the direction of the study of religion as a discipline at large.