A Challenge for the Academic Study of Religion
No Such Thing as ‘Sacred’ Cows, Right
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12202118 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Blair Alan Gadsby (0000-0003-4142-358X, Mesa Community College Mesa, Arizona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 479-493 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-23 |
| 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 | 10.1163/15700682-12341406 |
| OpenAlex | W2619723495 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Teaching religion in public education can benefit from the discourse in Religious Studies ( rs ) around the problem/ problem of defining religion. This is nowhere truer than in community college ( cc ). However, the notion that the term ‘religion’ is of limited value (represented here as problem ) is of not-much-use in cc due to religion’s perceptible nature. It is evident to citizens that there is ‘religion’, and while not-much-clear about it by way of rs definitions, it is an identifiable and operative category . I cite the incident of Frank Roque the “9/11 Revenge Killer” to show that there is such a category in the minds of the public and utilize Stark and Bainbridge’s A Theory of Religion to focus the discourse beyond the problem to the pedagogic and heuristic potentials of the problem for educators and ultimately citizens. The challenge for rs is to find ways for its analyses of religions to have a better effect in society. Otherwise, the category will be shaped by other forces as revealed in the words of the murderer regarding his Sikh victim, “I just viewed them all as just hateful Muslims.”
Epistemology · Focus (optics · Heuristic · Political science · Public discourse · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of religion · Term (time · Value (mathematics · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies · Study and Philosophy of Religion
The Ideology of Religious Studies
Manufacturing Religion
Imagining Religion
The Politics of Wishful Thinking? Disentangling the Role of the Scholar-Scientist from that of the Public Intellectual in the Modern Academic Study of Religion
The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge
A Theory of Religion
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |