A modest proposal on method : : essaying the study of religion / / Russell T. McCutcheon.

• VerfasserIn: McCutcheon, Russell T., 1961-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

A Modest Proposal on Method further documents methodological and institutional failings in the academic study of religion. This collection of essays—which includes three previously unpublished chapters—identifies the manner in which old problems (like the presumption that our object of study is a special, deeply meaningful case) yet remain in the field. But amidst the critique there are a variety of practical suggestions for how the science of religion can become methodologically even-handed and self-reflexive—the markings of a historically rigorous exercise. Each chapter is introduced and contextualized by a newly written, substantive introduction.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Plus ça change… -- Introduction: A Modest Proposal on Method -- Introduction: I Have a Hunch -- Introduction: Myth -- Introduction: Introducing Smith -- Introduction: How to Give Up the Bible, and Learn to Love It Again -- Introduction: “Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead?” (Luke 24: 5) -- Introduction: A Response to Donald Wiebe from an East-Going Zax -- Introduction: “And That’s Why No One Takes the Humanities Seriously” -- Introduction: It Could be Different: Reinventing the Study of Religion in Alabama -- Afterword -- References -- Index.