Explores the relationship between religious studies and theology and the place of each in the modern, secular university.
This collection explores the highly contested relationship of religious studies and theology and the place of each, if any, in secular institutions of higher education. The founding narrative of religious studies, with its sharp distinction between teaching religion and teaching about religion, grows less compelling in the face of globalization and the erosion of modernism. These essays take up the challenge of thinking through the identity and borders of religious studies and theology for our time. Reflecting a broad range of positions, the authors explore the religious/secular conceptual landscape that has dominated the modern West, and in the process address the revision of the academic study of religion and theology now underway.
Table of Content
Preface
1. Introduction
Linell E. Cady and Delwin Brown
2. The Study of Religion as an Anthropology of Credibility
Russell T. Mc Cutcheon
3. Why ‘Theology’ Won’t Work
Ivan Strenski
4. Our Subject ‘Over There?’ Scrutinizing the Distance Between Religion and Its Study
Christopher Chesnek
5. Other People’s Theologies:The New Hubris of History of Religions
Richard C. Martin
6. Embodied Theology
Sam Gill
7. From Theology to theology: The Place of ‘God-Talk’ in Religious Studies
William D. Hart
8. Territorial Disputes: Religious Studies and Theology in Transition
Linell E. Cady
9. Academic Theology in the University or Why an Ex-Queen’s Heir Should Be Made a Subject
Delwin Brown
10. Rethinking Theology and Religious Studies
Sheila Greeve Davaney
11. Religious Studies and the Alienation of Theology
Darrell J. Fasching
12. The Place of Academic Theology in the Study of Religion from the Perspective of Liberal Education
Paula M. Cooey
13. The Epistemic Publicity of Academic Black Theology
Frederick L.Ware
14. Theology and Cultural Contest in the University
Kathryn Tanner
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
About the author
Delwin Brown is Harvey H. Potthoff Professor of Christian Theology at the Iliff School of Theology.
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