A Response to Kevin Schilbrack
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12202000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy Fitzgerald (0000-0002-8586-6895, 1 University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Scotland, UK [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 101-106 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.1163/15700682-12341256 |
| OpenAlex | W2089278498 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 1 |
Kevin Schilbrack has pointed out that in my publications over a period from 1994 to 2007 there are some discrepancies in my arguments about some categories, especially “politics” and “culture.” In some earlier research on Dalits and Buddhists in Maharashtra I could not locate “religion,” so I attempted, unsuccessfully, to develop a tripartite conceptual substitution for “religion”—ritual, politics and soteriology—for purposes of description and analysis. However, though this was repeated in Ideology, I have come to realize that it contradicts a more fundamental argument which is tacit all the way through Ideology, for example in the critique of constructions of “religion-and-society.” It has become progressively clearer to me that the religion-politics binary is one of a series which rhetorically invents both domains (fundamentally religion-nonreligion) as mutually parasitic, while simultaneously transforming the nonreligious secular domains into the common sense order of things. Religion acts as the arena of “faith” and “belief ” in contrast to the supposed objective secular knowledge of the “real” world. I have pursued this latter argument most recently in Religion and Politics in International Relations: the Modern Myth, which shows how writers in that discipline have transformed “religion” into a global agent of malice threatening the benignly rational secular state
Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Faith · Ideology · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Secular state · Secularism · Sociology · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies · Study and Philosophy of Religion
Theory of Religion and Historical Research. A Critical Realist Perspective on the Study of Religion as an Empirical Discipline
The End of Religious Studies (as we knew it)
"Toward a "Wider and Juster Initiative
The Realist Discursive Study of Religion
After We Deconstruct ‘Religion,’ Then What? A Case for Critical Realism
Theology and Genealogies of Religious Studies
Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules? Why There Must Be More Ways to Be “Critical” in the Study of Religion
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,37 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |