Tyler Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tyler Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tyler |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grinnell College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1742-5393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Criticism beyond Critique in Stanley Cavell: Walden as Sacred Text
Encountering Incongruity: On J. Z. Smith
J. Z. Smith’s work has been a staple in the “Theory and Method” courses I have taught at Grinnell College for nearly two decades. I have always been struck by how his writing grabs and energizes our undergraduates and how Smith himself becomes, on occasion, an object of fascination for them. One year, the Religious Studies majors decided to immortalize Smith with their annual t-shirt. On the front of the pink shirt were the words “Jay-Z?” and an …
From Secular Criticism to Critical Fidelity
Stathis Gourgouris has responded to the question "Is critique secular" with a decisive "yes" and has offered a passionate and sophisticated defense of this position in Lessons in Secular Criticism. Yet, his argument suffers from a simplistic opposition between the religious and the secular. If we are to think critically about criticism and about religion, we need to think beyond such oppositions and be open to learning from religious forms of cri…
Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism
This book encourages scholars to abandon the conceptual opposition between the “secular” and the “religious” to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. It argues that the artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical “academic study of religion” and an ideological and authoritarian “religion” only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, the book calls on intellectuals to app…
Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism
Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical "academic study of religion" and an ideological and authoritarian "religion," he argues, only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, Roberts calls on intellectuals to approach…
All Work and No Play: Chaos, Incongruity and Differance in The Study of Religion
Journal Article All Work and No Play: Chaos, Incongruity and Différance in The Study of Religion Get access Tyler Roberts Tyler Roberts Tyler Roberts, Department of Religious Studies, Grinnell College, 1120 Park Street, Grinnell, IA 50112, USA E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 77, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 81–104, https://doi.…
Between the Lines: Exceeding Historicism in the Study of Religion
“Always historicize”: Frederic Jameson’s imperative today exerts a powerful influence on the study of religion. It informs a wide range of methods and, perhaps more important, it shapes influential definitions of religion and religious subjectivity and agency. This article examines this influence and argues for the necessity of thinking the limits of historicism. Building on Robert Orsi’s efforts to identify a space for academic exploration in-be…
Rhetorics of Ideology and Criticism in the Study of Religion
Contesting Spirit: Nietzsche, Affirmation, Religion
Challenging the dominant scholarly consensus that Nietzshe is simply an enemy of religion, Tyler Roberts examines the place of religion in Nietzsche's thought and Nietzsche's thought as a site of religion. Roberts argues that Nietzsche's conceptualization and cultivation of an affirmative self require that we interrogate the ambiguiies that mark his criticisms of asceticism and mysticism. What emerges is a vision of Nietzsche's philosophy as the …
This Art of Transfiguration Is Philosophy: Nietzsche's Asceticism
Theology and the Ascetic Imperative: Narrative and Renunciation in Taylor and Hauerwas
Rhetorics of Ideology and Criticism in the Study of Religion
Between the Lines: Exceeding Historicism in the Study of Religion
“Always historicize”: Frederic Jameson’s imperative today exerts a powerful influence on the study of religion. It informs a wide range of methods and, perhaps more important, it shapes influential definitions of religion and religious subjectivity and agency. This article examines this influence and argues for the necessity of thinking the limits of historicism. Building on Robert Orsi’s efforts to identify a space for academic exploration in-be…
All Work and No Play: Chaos, Incongruity and Differance in The Study of Religion
Journal Article All Work and No Play: Chaos, Incongruity and Différance in The Study of Religion Get access Tyler Roberts Tyler Roberts Tyler Roberts, Department of Religious Studies, Grinnell College, 1120 Park Street, Grinnell, IA 50112, USA E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 77, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 81–104, https://doi.…
From Secular Criticism to Critical Fidelity
Stathis Gourgouris has responded to the question "Is critique secular" with a decisive "yes" and has offered a passionate and sophisticated defense of this position in Lessons in Secular Criticism. Yet, his argument suffers from a simplistic opposition between the religious and the secular. If we are to think critically about criticism and about religion, we need to think beyond such oppositions and be open to learning from religious forms of cri…
Theology and the Ascetic Imperative: Narrative and Renunciation in Taylor and Hauerwas
This Art of Transfiguration Is Philosophy: Nietzsche's Asceticism
Contesting Spirit: Nietzsche, Affirmation, Religion
Challenging the dominant scholarly consensus that Nietzshe is simply an enemy of religion, Tyler Roberts examines the place of religion in Nietzsche's thought and Nietzsche's thought as a site of religion. Roberts argues that Nietzsche's conceptualization and cultivation of an affirmative self require that we interrogate the ambiguiies that mark his criticisms of asceticism and mysticism. What emerges is a vision of Nietzsche's philosophy as the …
Rhetorics of Ideology and Criticism in the Study of Religion
Between the Lines: Exceeding Historicism in the Study of Religion
“Always historicize”: Frederic Jameson’s imperative today exerts a powerful influence on the study of religion. It informs a wide range of methods and, perhaps more important, it shapes influential definitions of religion and religious subjectivity and agency. This article examines this influence and argues for the necessity of thinking the limits of historicism. Building on Robert Orsi’s efforts to identify a space for academic exploration in-be…
All Work and No Play: Chaos, Incongruity and Differance in The Study of Religion
Journal Article All Work and No Play: Chaos, Incongruity and Différance in The Study of Religion Get access Tyler Roberts Tyler Roberts Tyler Roberts, Department of Religious Studies, Grinnell College, 1120 Park Street, Grinnell, IA 50112, USA E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 77, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 81–104, https://doi.…
Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism
This book encourages scholars to abandon the conceptual opposition between the “secular” and the “religious” to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. It argues that the artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical “academic study of religion” and an ideological and authoritarian “religion” only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, the book calls on intellectuals to app…
Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism
Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical "academic study of religion" and an ideological and authoritarian "religion," he argues, only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, Roberts calls on intellectuals to approach…
From Secular Criticism to Critical Fidelity
Stathis Gourgouris has responded to the question "Is critique secular" with a decisive "yes" and has offered a passionate and sophisticated defense of this position in Lessons in Secular Criticism. Yet, his argument suffers from a simplistic opposition between the religious and the secular. If we are to think critically about criticism and about religion, we need to think beyond such oppositions and be open to learning from religious forms of cri…
Encountering Incongruity: On J. Z. Smith
J. Z. Smith’s work has been a staple in the “Theory and Method” courses I have taught at Grinnell College for nearly two decades. I have always been struck by how his writing grabs and energizes our undergraduates and how Smith himself becomes, on occasion, an object of fascination for them. One year, the Religious Studies majors decided to immortalize Smith with their annual t-shirt. On the front of the pink shirt were the words “Jay-Z?” and an …
Criticism beyond Critique in Stanley Cavell: Walden as Sacred Text
Philosophy (10 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Criticism (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Asceticism (3 works)