Matt Sheedy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1382594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Sheedy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheedy |
| SIGNATURE | SHEEDY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In Search of Rules for a Critical Study of Religion
This article builds on critical engagements with a 2022 essay that appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion . At the centre of this essay was a concern with the influence of ‘Critical Religion’ ( CR ) on the academic study of religion, including the idea that CR is crypto-normative, inconsistent when applying its critiques, is overly deconstructive, and is unable to address ethical claims. Taking issue with some of the argument…
The Future of Metamodernism
This paper provides a critical examination of Jason Josephson Storm’s Metamodernism: The Future of Theory (2021). While endorsing many of Storm’s positions, I pose a series of questions on several of his ideas. These include clarifications on possible applications of his theory, the various ways in which it makes claims on the study of religion, and, last but not least, questions about the author’s interesting proposal for a critical virtue ethic…
Reinventing the Study of Religion
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Six or Eleven Theses on “Islamic” and “Christian” Terrorism in America
The term “Christian terrorism” began to appear in U.S. media narratives following a shooting outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015. Reflecting on a blog post I wrote from this time nearly six-years later, where I had proposed six theses on “Islamic” versus “Christian” terrorism in America, I consider how this rhetoric has developed in the interim. Adding five additional theses, I argue that the relative absence of terror attacks on U.S. …
Owning the Secular
Owning the Secular examines three case studies dealing with religious symbols and cultural identity, including two public controversies over the veil in Canada – at the federal level and in the province of Québec – and an ex-Muslim podcaster rethinking her atheist identity in the era of Donald Trump and the alt-right. Drawing on theories of discourse analysis and ideology critique, this study calls attention to an evolution in how secularism, nat…
Making the Familiar Strange
TWO DAYS AFTER the death of J. Z. Smith, I received a message from Tenzan Eaghll asking me if I was interested in a blog post that he wrote entitled “Something I Learned from J. Z. Smith.” I immediately took to the idea and ran with it as a series, which resulted in contributions from nine scholars on what Smith’s approach to the study of religion has added to their work.1 Four of these contributions (see contributions by Stanton 2018; Colascco 2…
Identity, Politics and the Study of Islam
Based partly on a series of posts coming out of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, this volume includes greatly expanded essays by Ruth Mas, Sarah Imhoff and James Crossley as well as new pieces by Devin Stewart, Carlos Segovia, Alexandre Caeiro and Emmanuelle Stefanidis, Russell McCutcheon and Salman Sayyid. This volume, thus, brings together a variety of scholars both inside and outside of Islamic Studies in order to grapple with such…
"Habermas, Islam, and theorizing the "Other
Over the last twenty years, Jürgen Habermas has been at the forefront of debates involving religion in the public sphere. In the wake of 9/11 he has responded to the problems of terrorism, "radical Islam," and the so-called Muslim question in Europe, attempting to align these issue with his broader theories of deliberative democracy and postsecularism. Although Habermas aims for an inclusive model of deliberation in the public sphere, I argue tha…
Introduction to the special issue on the Frankfurt School and religion
Habermas and Religion
At 86, Jürgen Habermas remains one of the most influential living social philosophers in the world. Since the 9/11 attacks, he has focused on the problem of religion in the public sphere and helped to popularize the term 'post-secularism'. Despite this recent shift in his work, religion has always been a theme in his complex critical theory. In this paper, I trace the ways in which Habermas has situated religion over the span of his career, inclu…
The Future of Religious History in Habermas’s Critical Theory of Religion
In Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age Hans Kippenberg argues that the history of religions is the creative work-product of a cultural and political identity crisis, one in which the comparative history of religions became a means for some European scholars to uncouple from an increasingly halfhearted attachment to Christianity and re-experience their own history in a dynamic new form. A future for religion was thus found in the creat…
Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood, Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury and Free Speech
Habermas and Religion
At 86, Jürgen Habermas remains one of the most influential living social philosophers in the world. Since the 9/11 attacks, he has focused on the problem of religion in the public sphere and helped to popularize the term 'post-secularism'. Despite this recent shift in his work, religion has always been a theme in his complex critical theory. In this paper, I trace the ways in which Habermas has situated religion over the span of his career, inclu…
"Habermas, Islam, and theorizing the "Other
Over the last twenty years, Jürgen Habermas has been at the forefront of debates involving religion in the public sphere. In the wake of 9/11 he has responded to the problems of terrorism, "radical Islam," and the so-called Muslim question in Europe, attempting to align these issue with his broader theories of deliberative democracy and postsecularism. Although Habermas aims for an inclusive model of deliberation in the public sphere, I argue tha…
The Future of Religious History in Habermas’s Critical Theory of Religion
In Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age Hans Kippenberg argues that the history of religions is the creative work-product of a cultural and political identity crisis, one in which the comparative history of religions became a means for some European scholars to uncouple from an increasingly halfhearted attachment to Christianity and re-experience their own history in a dynamic new form. A future for religion was thus found in the creat…
Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood, Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury and Free Speech
The Future of Religious History in Habermas’s Critical Theory of Religion
In Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age Hans Kippenberg argues that the history of religions is the creative work-product of a cultural and political identity crisis, one in which the comparative history of religions became a means for some European scholars to uncouple from an increasingly halfhearted attachment to Christianity and re-experience their own history in a dynamic new form. A future for religion was thus found in the creat…
Habermas and Religion
At 86, Jürgen Habermas remains one of the most influential living social philosophers in the world. Since the 9/11 attacks, he has focused on the problem of religion in the public sphere and helped to popularize the term 'post-secularism'. Despite this recent shift in his work, religion has always been a theme in his complex critical theory. In this paper, I trace the ways in which Habermas has situated religion over the span of his career, inclu…
Identity, Politics and the Study of Islam
Based partly on a series of posts coming out of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, this volume includes greatly expanded essays by Ruth Mas, Sarah Imhoff and James Crossley as well as new pieces by Devin Stewart, Carlos Segovia, Alexandre Caeiro and Emmanuelle Stefanidis, Russell McCutcheon and Salman Sayyid. This volume, thus, brings together a variety of scholars both inside and outside of Islamic Studies in order to grapple with such…
"Habermas, Islam, and theorizing the "Other
Over the last twenty years, Jürgen Habermas has been at the forefront of debates involving religion in the public sphere. In the wake of 9/11 he has responded to the problems of terrorism, "radical Islam," and the so-called Muslim question in Europe, attempting to align these issue with his broader theories of deliberative democracy and postsecularism. Although Habermas aims for an inclusive model of deliberation in the public sphere, I argue tha…
Introduction to the special issue on the Frankfurt School and religion
Making the Familiar Strange
TWO DAYS AFTER the death of J. Z. Smith, I received a message from Tenzan Eaghll asking me if I was interested in a blog post that he wrote entitled “Something I Learned from J. Z. Smith.” I immediately took to the idea and ran with it as a series, which resulted in contributions from nine scholars on what Smith’s approach to the study of religion has added to their work.1 Four of these contributions (see contributions by Stanton 2018; Colascco 2…
Owning the Secular
Owning the Secular examines three case studies dealing with religious symbols and cultural identity, including two public controversies over the veil in Canada – at the federal level and in the province of Québec – and an ex-Muslim podcaster rethinking her atheist identity in the era of Donald Trump and the alt-right. Drawing on theories of discourse analysis and ideology critique, this study calls attention to an evolution in how secularism, nat…
Reinventing the Study of Religion
.
Six or Eleven Theses on “Islamic” and “Christian” Terrorism in America
The term “Christian terrorism” began to appear in U.S. media narratives following a shooting outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015. Reflecting on a blog post I wrote from this time nearly six-years later, where I had proposed six theses on “Islamic” versus “Christian” terrorism in America, I consider how this rhetoric has developed in the interim. Adding five additional theses, I argue that the relative absence of terror attacks on U.S. …
The Future of Metamodernism
This paper provides a critical examination of Jason Josephson Storm’s Metamodernism: The Future of Theory (2021). While endorsing many of Storm’s positions, I pose a series of questions on several of his ideas. These include clarifications on possible applications of his theory, the various ways in which it makes claims on the study of religion, and, last but not least, questions about the author’s interesting proposal for a critical virtue ethic…
In Search of Rules for a Critical Study of Religion
This article builds on critical engagements with a 2022 essay that appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion . At the centre of this essay was a concern with the influence of ‘Critical Religion’ ( CR ) on the academic study of religion, including the idea that CR is crypto-normative, inconsistent when applying its critiques, is overly deconstructive, and is unable to address ethical claims. Taking issue with some of the argument…
Philosophy (10 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Theology (7 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · Islam (4 works) · Art (3 works)