Transforming discourse

Interdisciplinary critique, the university, and the academic study of religion

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20253180
AutoresBrent A Smith (0000-0003-0568-1717, Grand Valley State University, autor de correspondencia)
EditoresPeter Stanley Fosl
Año2016
Volumen3
Número1
Páginas1
Fecha de publicación2016-12-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCogent Arts and Humanities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2331-1983 • E-ISSN: 2331-1983
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23311983.2015.1128318
OpenAlexW2279117833
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas23

In the book Interdisciplinarity, Joe Moran traced the rise of interdisciplinarity as an inherently transformative approach to the gathering and ordering of knowledge in the modern university. Interdisciplinarity challenges the university as an epistemological project by historicizing it as a context for knowledge production. The academic study of religion arose in this setting and has developed within the intellectual forces—the lines of inquiry and allegiances to certain discourses and ways of organizing knowledge—that marked the modern university. Over the past few decades, the concept of “religion” has been historicized and scholars have argued over whether the “sacred” is in the structure of human consciousness or is the expression of culture; whether the “sacred” is its own category or is better left to the various disciplines to account for it; and, how “religion” and “secular” are to be understood. Religious Studies has been called interdisciplinary by some, but the development of the intellectual context of the university as an epistemological project has not been historicized to see how its formation cast discourse in the manner in which it has. Interdisciplinarity can provide that historicizing and open new paths of interest and inquiry in Religious Studies

Consciousness · Epistemology · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Education and Schools · Study and Philosophy of Religion