Critical terms for religious studies / edited by Sarah Hammerschlag ; editorial advisory board, Alireza Doostdar [and six others].
| Other author | Hammerschlag, Sarah, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Second edition. |
| Publication | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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| Abstract | "A new edition of a classic resource-comprised of twenty-three essays written specifically for this volume. First published nearly thirty years ago, Critical Terms for Religious Studies proved a vital resource for an emerging interdisciplinary conversation. We still use much of the same language in the study of religion, but fresh concerns have both changed their meaning and given rise to new terms altogether. This edition consists of twenty-three entirely new essays that offer students and scholars alike the tools to historicize and evaluate the shifting role of familiar and emerging critical terms in religious studies. These are "critical terms" both because they are important in our cultural moment-identity, race, sex, catastrophe, power, and money-and because thinking through them reveals how religions are embedded in and shaped by material, social, economic, and political forces. A shared conviction unites contributors from a range of traditions and methodologies: a recognition that our world is saturated by the persistence of religious traditions as shape-shifting (not static or transcendent) forces of authority, as powerful today as ever before"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2024041082 |
| ISBN | 9780226839851 |
| ISBN | 9780226720906 hardcover |
| ISBN | 022672090X hardcover |
| ISBN | 0226839850 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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