The future of the study of religion : proceedings of Congress 2000 / / edited by Slavica Jakelic and Lori Pearson.

• Superior document: Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, v. 103
• Author: Congress 2000: the Future of the Study of Religion
• TeilnehmendeR: Jakelic, Slavica.; Pearson, Lori.; Congress 2000: the Future of the Study of Religion
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; 103.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Whither the Study of Religion? /; The Stubborn Persistence of Religion: Some Post-Secular Reflections /; The Stubborn Persistence of Debates about Religion: A Response to Friedrich Wilhelm Graf /; The Study of Religions in the Twentieth Century /; The History of Religions and the Study of Religions: A Response to Hans Kippenberg /; Difference and Coherence in the Worldwide Study of Religions /; Response to Michael Pye /; Globalization and the Future Study of Religion /; Response to Bryan Turner /; The Proper Object of the Study of Religion: Why It Is Better to Know Some of the Questions Than All of the Answers /; Problems, Questions, and Curiosities: A Response to Ivan Strenski /; Diversity and the Study of Mysticism /; Response to Steven Katz /; Engendering the Study of Religion /; Agency and Evidence in Feminist Studies of Religion: A Response to Elizabeth Clark /; Detraditionalizing the Study of Religion /; Response to Paul Heelas /; Retraditionalizing the Study of Religion: The Conflict of the Faculties: Theology and the Economy of the Sciences /; Theology or Religious Studies? The Future of Religious Studies: A Response to John Milbank /; Ernst Troeltsch and the Future of the Study of Religion /; Response to Trutz Rendtorff /; Congress 2000: The Future of the Study of Religion Parallel Sessions and Panel Discussion /; Index /; Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1280914637; 9786610914630; 9047404122; 1429408278
• ISSN: 0169-8834
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Slavica Jakelic and Lori Pearson.

This volume brings together diverse voices from various fields within religious and theological studies for a conversation about the proper objects, goals, and methods for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. It approaches these questions by way of the most recent contemporary challenges, debates, and developments in the field, and provides a forum in which contending perspectives are tested and contested by their proponents and opponents. Contributors address topics such as: the connection between the ‘normative’ and the ‘scientific’ approaches to the study of religion, the meaning of religion in a context of globalization, the relation between religious studies and religious traditions, the viability of comparative and cultural studies of religious phenomena, and the future of gender studies in religion.