Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion (eBook, PDF)

Revisiting Classical Theorists
Redaktion: Newton, Richard; Touna, Vaia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces students to the so-called classics of the field from the 19th and 20th centuries, whilst challenging readers to apply a critical lens.

Instead of representing scholars and their works as virtually timeless, each contributor provides sufficient background on the classic work in question so that readers not only understand its novelty and place in its own time, but are able to arrive at a critical understanding of whether its approach to studying religion continues to be useful to them today. Scholars discussed include Muller, Durkheim, Freud and Eliade.

Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists therefore offers a novel way into writing both a history and ethnography of the discipline, helping readers to see how it has changed and inviting them to consider what-if anything-endures and thereby unites these diverse authors into a common field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350251663
• Artikelnr.: 67382462

Autorenporträt

Richard Newton is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, USA. Vaia Touna is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors Preface: Taking Notes in the Field of Religious Studies: Critical Methods
Vaia Touna (The University of Alabama
USA) Introduction: Revisiting the Past.
Again
Aaron W. Hughes and Russell T. McCutcheon (The University of Alabama
USA) 1. Friedrich Max Muller
Brent Nongbri (MF Norwegian School of Theology
Religion and Society
Norway) 2. William James
Emily Clark (Gonzaga University
USA) 3. Edward B. Tylor
Mitsutoshi Horii (Shumei University
Japan) 4. Joseph Kitagawa
Christopher M. Jones(Washburn University
USA) 5. James Frazer
Krista Dalton(Kenyon College in Gambier
USA) 6. Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Edith Szanto (The University of Alabama
USA) 7. Sigmund Freud
Robyn Walsh (University of Miami
USA) 8. Gerardus van der Leeuw
Tenzan Eaghll (Mahidol University
Thailand) 9. Rudolf Otto
Martha Smith Roberts (Fullerton College
USA) 10. Carl Jung
Lauren Griffin 11. Bronislaw Malinowski
Brett Esaki(University of Arizona
USA) 12. Mircea Eliade
Joseph Winters (Duke University
USA) 13. Max Weber
Andrew Tobolowsky (College of William and Mary
USA) Afterword: Revisiting Classics and Plotting Futures for the Field of Religious Studies
Richard Newton (The University of Alabama
USA) Notes Bibliography Index