Interdisciplinarity in Nondisciplines

Archive and Academe in the Study of Religion

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9205202
AutoresRafal K Stepien (0000-0001-9294-9552, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna Austria, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen70
Número5-6
Páginas473-513
Fecha de publicación2023-09-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNumen (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0029-5973 • E-ISSN: 1568-5276
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15685276-20231703
OpenAlexW4386522022
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas26

This article reveals, criticizes, and attempts to overcome the systemic divides between the ideals of an interdisciplinarily employed archive and the realities of a disciplinarily deployed academy. Following an initial section on “Parameters and Proposals” in which I frame the ambit and arguments to follow, in “Religious Studies as Nondiscipline” I argue against the view that religious studies constitutes a discrete discipline. In “Interdisciplinarity and Nondisciplines” I theorize interdisciplinarity and argue for a conceptual relationship between it and the study of religion. Subsequent sections on “Interdisciplinarity in the Practice” and “An Interdisciplinarity in Practice” relate the practical consequences of my account for university-based professional religious studies, and provide an exemplary case study of the alternative approach advanced. Finally, in “Archive and Academe” I draw on contemporary theorizations of the archive to propose the study of religion, as here conceived, to be preeminently located to enact long overdue structural change in academe

Epistemology · Frame (networking) · History of religions · Section (typography) · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices