Undisciplining the study of religion
Critical Posthumanities and More-Than-Human Ways of Knowing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4372175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kocku Von Stuckrad (0000-0002-2718-2639, Department of Comparative Religion, Groningen University, Groningen, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 616-635 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0048721x.2023.2258705 |
| OpenAlex | W4386928618 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 35 |
Recent discussions about other-than-human agency and relationality across species and lifeforms are closely tied to theoretical reconsiderations within, and beyond, the humanities. Scholars in the study of religion have only reluctantly picked up these considerations. Theoretical work that includes nonhuman animals in conceptualisations of religion often still operates in binary structures of nature/culture and body/mind. The author reviews recent naturalistic approaches to concepts of religion and combines them with discussions in critical animal studies and biosemiotics, as well as with Karen Barad's theory of agential realism, which forms the basis of a robust analytical frame of nonhuman agency. The author proposes a critical posthumanities study of religion, transforming and 'undisciplining' the humanities into a form of scholarly engagement that creates a transversal field of knowledge, consisting of human and other-than-human intraactions-a study of religion that intentionally leaves behind the regimes of mastery and exploitation that are still operative today
Agency (philosophy) · Biosemiotics · Critical realism (philosophy of perception) · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Frame (networking) · Human science · Naturalism · Realism · Semiotics · Social science · Sociology · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Study and Philosophy of Religion
Situated Knowledges and Diffractional Definitions of Esotericism
Genealogien des Undenkbaren
Ethik als Gegenstand der Religionswissenschaft
Decentering Humanism in Philosophy and the Sciences
Quantum Reality as Life-Guiding
Flourishing bodies
Europa dezentrieren
Revaluing Gender and Religion in the Anthropological Debate of the Anthropocene
Decolonizing Forest
Developing Planetary Humanities
Constructing "Data" in Religious Studies
The Sacred in the Modern World
Dark Ecology
More Than Belief
Methods for the Study of Religious Change
Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Reassembling the Social
The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology
The War against Animals
Embodied Cosmologies
No Field Is an Island
Presidential Address
Animal Studies
Animals and Agency
You Don’t Know What Pain Is
Posthumanism
Shifting worldviews
Relationality
From religious studies to worldview studies
A stroll through the worlds of animals and men
Vesper Flights
Thinking Animals
Situated Knowledges
Do Animals Have Religion? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion and Embodiment
Worldviews
A Theoretical Framework for the Critical Posthumanities
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |