Theology in Modernity’s Wake
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8203633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ellen T Armour (0000-0002-9734-8083, Rhodes College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-15 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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/lfj006 |
| OpenAlex | W1965986938 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
When Jacques Derrida died I was called by a reporter who wanted to know what would succeed high theory and the triumvirate of race, gender, and class as the center of intellectual energy in the academy. I answered like a shot: religion. —Stanley Fish (2005) AS A CONSTRUCTIVE FEMINIST THEOLOGIAN whose work focuses on “the triumvirate” and draws on “high theory” including that of Jacques Derrida, this comment from Stanley Fish in a recent issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education caught my eye. I position my comments against that backdrop. We are said to have arrived at the end of modernity, a turn of the cosmic clock supposedly marked by such milestones as the death of the subject, the demise of metanarratives, and the loss of confidence in reason. Jacques Derrida, among other continental thinkers, is often touted as a harbinger of “postmodernity,” one mark of which is (ironically, perhaps, given the supposed demise of metanarratives) purportedly the return of the religious. As dubious as that claim may seem to those of us who study religion (when did religion disappear, exactly?), we must acknowledge that religion has gained a new prominence on the world scene in the last few years. And even before the geopolitical events that are largely responsible for this, academic publishing had witnessed a proliferation of books on religion by scholars of all stripes and types.1 Whatever value might lie in that body of scholarship, religion’s enhanced visibility highlights the important and distinctive contributions that theology and religious studies stand to make to both the academy and the world at large. But what obligation do scholars of religion have to the pursuit of the postmodern? In what sense, if any, do our fields of inquiry exhibit signs of modernity’s decline, if not demise?
Demise · Epistemology · Modernity · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |