On Transdisciplinary Possibility
An Interstitial Exploration of American Religious History and Religious Ethics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura A Simpson (0009-0007-0406-9645, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 518-538 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jore.12447 |
| OpenAlex | W4385317962 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
This essay explores the intersections of religious ethics and American religious history and advocates for a transdisciplinary approach to scholarship in both disciplines. Four books, each published within the last 4 years, form the foundation of this discussion by modeling distinctive elements of transdisciplinary scholarship: Heathen: Religion and Race in American History by Kathryn Gin Lum; Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism by Peter Coviello; Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts Against Domestic Violence by Juliane Hammer; and The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics by Janet R. Jakobsen. Each of these texts raises questions that hover at the intersections of religious ethics and American religious history, demonstrating how scholarship in both areas can be strengthened through a destabilization of the disciplines themselves
Discipline · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Secularism · Social science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
Interdisciplinarity
Typologies of Interdisciplinarity
Make Yourselves Gods
The Sex Obsession
Peaceful Families
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory
The Genre of Judgment
Terrorist Assemblages
Introduction
Ethnography and Subjectivity in Comparative Religious Ethics
Ethical Self‐making, Moral Experimentation, and Humanitarian Encounter
Ethnography, Anthropology, and Comparative Religious Ethics
Unsettling Issues
Everywhere and Nowhere
Contested Words
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |