On Becoming a Lucid Theoretical Dreamer. Reflections on Academic Work Venturing Outside its Local Knowledge System

Postcolonial and postmodern critique left us with a range of insights that have a fundamental impact on how we perceive our work as scholars. It has for instance seriously damaged the idea that there is a way to escape epistemology to some kind of 'real' reality that lies beneath our versi...

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Main Author: Beutter, Anne 1987- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2017]
In: Bulletin for the study of religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-19
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Science of Religion / Wissensbasiertes System / Self-image / The Other
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
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Summary:Postcolonial and postmodern critique left us with a range of insights that have a fundamental impact on how we perceive our work as scholars. It has for instance seriously damaged the idea that there is a way to escape epistemology to some kind of 'real' reality that lies beneath our versions of rendering reality intelligible. This confronts us with a fundamental dilemma: As we always write as situated observers there is no proper / unbiased way to write about ‘others', however not considering ‘others' is ethnocentric and therefore wrong as well. Forced to take a stance towards this dilemma, this essay expands on the questions at stake and indicates a possible positioning towards it.
ISSN:2041-1871
Contains:Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/bsor.31008