Christopher M. Driscoll, Monica R. Miller

Method as Identity

Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

Method as Identity considers how social identity shapes methodological standpoints. With a refreshing hip hop sensibility, Miller and Driscoll reorient the contemporary academic study of religion toward recognition of the costs and benefits of manufacturing "critical" distance from our objects of study.

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Produktdetails

• Religion and Race
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9781498565622
• ISBN-10: 149856562X
• Artikelnr.: 53688837

Autorenporträt

Monica R. Miller is associate professor of religion studies and Africana studies and director of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Lehigh University. Christopher M. Driscoll is assistant professor of religion studies, American studies, and Africana studies at Lehigh University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Manufacturing Distance in the Study of Religion 1. Method as
Identity: The Battle for Identity in the North American Academic Study of
Religion 2. Ghost Stories: How Method Reveals Identity in the Study of
Religions 3. Long Division: How Identity Reveals Method in the History of
Religions 4. What Is "Black" about "Black" Religious Studies?: Distinction
and Diaspora in the Maintenance of a Field 5. What Identity Is Your
Method?: Tracing Co-Constitution in the Twilight of (White) Normativity 6.
Categorical Miscegenation: Strange Bitter Fruit and Uncertain Branches in
the Field 7. N-Words and M-Words: Switching Codes, Shifting Realities, and
Trading Metaphors of Authority Conclusion: Ghostbusters & Paranoiacs