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

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Slavica Jakelić and Lori Pearson -- Whither the Study of Religion? / Slavica Jakelić and Lori Pearson -- The Stubborn Persistence of Religion: Some Post-Secular Reflections / Friedrich Wilhelm Graf -- The Stubborn Persistence of Debates about Religion: A Response to Friedrich Wilhelm Graf / Peter Berger -- The Study of Religions in the Twentieth Century / Hans G. Kippenberg -- The History of Religions and the Study of Religions: A Response to Hans Kippenberg / Christoph Schwöbel -- Difference and Coherence in the Worldwide Study of Religions / Michael Pye -- Response to Michael Pye / Robert Cummings Neville -- Globalization and the Future Study of Religion / Bryan S. Turner -- Response to Bryan Turner / Adam B. Seligman -- The Proper Object of the Study of Religion: Why It Is Better to Know Some of the Questions Than All of the Answers / Ivan Strenski -- Problems, Questions, and Curiosities: A Response to Ivan Strenski / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- Diversity and the Study of Mysticism / Steven T. Katz -- Response to Steven Katz / Francis X. Clooney -- Engendering the Study of Religion / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Agency and Evidence in Feminist Studies of Religion: A Response to Elizabeth Clark / Amy Hollywood -- Detraditionalizing the Study of Religion / Paul Heelas -- Response to Paul Heelas / Ann Braude -- Retraditionalizing the Study of Religion: The Conflict of the Faculties: Theology and the Economy of the Sciences / John Milbank -- Theology or Religious Studies? The Future of Religious Studies: A Response to John Milbank / Paul Morris -- Ernst Troeltsch and the Future of the Study of Religion / Trutz Rendtorff -- Response to Trutz Rendtorff / Sarah Coakley -- Congress 2000: The Future of the Study of Religion Parallel Sessions and Panel Discussion / Sarah Coakley -- Index / Sarah Coakley -- Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series / Sarah Coakley.