A new edition of a classic resource-composed of twenty-three essays written specifically for this volume.
First published nearly thirty years ago, Critical Terms for Religious Studies proved a vital resource for an emerging interdisciplinary conversation. We still use much of the same language in the study of religion, but fresh concerns have both changed the meaning of terms and given rise to new terms altogether. This edition consists of twenty-three entirely new essays that offer students and scholars alike the tools to historicize and evaluate the shifting role of familiar and emerging critical terms in religious studies.
These are "critical terms" both because they are important in our cultural moment and because thinking through them reveals how religions are embedded in and shaped by material, social, economic, and political forces. A shared conviction unites contributors from a range of traditions and methodologies: a recognition that our world is saturated by the persistence of religious traditions as shape-shifting (not static or transcendent) forces of authority, as powerful today as ever before.
| ISBN: | 9780226720906 |
| Publication date: | 30th May 2025 |
| Author: | Sarah Hammerschlag |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 438 pages |
| Series: | Critical Terms |
| Genres: |
Philosophy of religion History of religion |
A new edition of a classic resource-composed of twenty-three essays written specifically for this volume.
First published nearly thirty years ago, Critical Terms for Religious Studies proved a vital resource for an emerging interdisciplinary conversation. We still use much of the same language in the study of religion, but fresh concerns have both changed the meaning of terms and given rise to new terms altogether. This edition consists of twenty-three entirely new essays that offer students and scholars alike the tools to historicize and evaluate the shifting role of familiar and emerging critical terms in religious studies.
These are "critical terms" both because they are important in our cultural moment and because thinking through them reveals how religions are embedded in and shaped by material, social, economic, and political forces. A shared conviction unites contributors from a range of traditions and methodologies: a recognition that our world is saturated by the persistence of religious traditions as shape-shifting (not static or transcendent) forces of authority, as powerful today as ever before.
Critical Terms for Religious Studies features in the following genres: Philosophy of religion, History of religion
Critical Terms for Religious Studies is available in Hardback, Paperback
Critical Terms for Religious Studies was written by Sarah Hammerschlag and published by The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press
Critical Terms for Religious Studies has 438 pages
Yes it is part of Critical Terms series