Defining the Canon
"A Response To Arnal and Gill's "Approaches To the Study of Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12201869 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D D Shorter (0000-0003-4059-116X, University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author), David Shorter (1History of Consciousness Program University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 401-407 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0943-3058 • E-ISSN: 1570-0682 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157006899x00122 |
| OpenAlex | W1981974354 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
In issue 11-2 of MTSR (1999), both William E. Arnal and Sam D. Gill offer excellent examples of how they pedagogically approach the study of religion with their first-year graduate students. Arnal designs a fairly straight-forward course by combining Daniel Pals' Seven Theo ries of Religion (1996), with Brian Morris' Anthropological Studies of Religion (1987), and a reader. Gill, on the other hand, takes a broadly com prehensive and intentionally ritualistic approach to his course. Gill utilizes the first half of the term to demonstrate historical links be
Aesthetics · Canon · Epistemology · Graduate students · Pedagogy · Sociology · Term (time · Anthropology · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Study and Philosophy of Religion
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |