Divining the Future Places of Religion
A Partial Response to Graham Ward, “The Future of Religion”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8201050 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth A Castelli (Barnard College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 187-191 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jaarel/lfj025 |
| OpenAlex | W2029681135 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Any radical critique [entails] a rereading of the sacred texts against the passionate urging of a different question, a different practice, and a different desire. —de Lauretis (1984: 107) I OFTEN WONDER ABOUT the anxious attention that scholars of religion pay to questions of the future of our enterprise. It strikes me as a curious, self-reflexive, almost ascetical exercise: Is this attention, itself, a religious undertaking? One thinks of the long legacies of prophecy and divination, one thinks of apocalyptic fantasies and utopian hopes. Or is this attention paid to the future rather an atoning effort aimed at resolving a past that has now been so thoroughly deconstructed and critiqued and finally reduced to a quaint and repudiated artifact of, well, bad faith? Is it a sign of the (end) times, a nearly theological reflection on afterlives—post-Enlightenment, postmodern, post-secular?
Aesthetics · Artifact (error) · Divination · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Faith · Postmodernism · Reflexivity · Sign (mathematics) · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Wonder · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Religious Tourism and Spaces
| Highly cited | No |
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