Valuing the Study of Religion: Improving Difficult Dialogues Within and Beyond the AAR's “Big Tent”

This presidential address aims to improve the clarity and effectiveness of conversations within the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and beyond it. As for our internal AAR debates, we sometimes talk across subfields, but we have few productive exchanges that identify what we share and what we don&...

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Main Author: Tweed, Thomas A. 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2016]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 84, Issue: 2, Pages: 287-322
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