The learned practice of religion in the modern university
"In this book, Donald Wiebe unveils a significant problem in the academic study of religion: that colleges and universities in North America offer an almost exclusively theological account of religion. To explore this issue, Wiebe looks at the religious and moral agendas behind the study of rel...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Academic
2020
[London, England] Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 |
| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Edition: | First edition |
| Series/Journal: | Scientific studies of religion inquiry and explanation
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
North America
/ University
/ Theology
/ Religious education
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| Further subjects: | B
Religious Education
B Religion Study and teaching (Higher) B Theology Study and teaching (Higher) B RELIGION & science B Electronic books |
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| Summary: | "In this book, Donald Wiebe unveils a significant problem in the academic study of religion: that colleges and universities in North America offer an almost exclusively theological account of religion. To explore this issue, Wiebe looks at the religious and moral agendas behind the study of religion, showing that the boundaries between the objective study of religion and religious education as a tool for bettering society have become blurred. As a result, he argues, religious studies departments have fostered an environment where religion has become a learned or scholarly practice, rather the object of academic scrutiny. This book provides a critical history of the failure of 20th and 21st century scholars to follow through on the 19th century ideal of an objective scientific study of religious thought and behaviour. Although emancipated from direct ecclesiastical control and, to some extent, from sectarian theologizing, Wiebe argues that research and scholarship in the academic department of religious studies has failed to break free from religious constraints. He shows that an objective scientific study of religious thought and practice is not only possible, but the only appropriate approach to the study of religious phenomena"-- Includes religion in 'religious studies' : the problematic idea of religious studies -- Secular theology is still theology, not the academic study of religion -- The scientific study of religion and its cultured despisers -- Apologetic modes of theorising -- The learned practice of religion : a review of the history of religious studies in Canada and its portent for the future -- Affirming religion in the history of religious studies in Canada -- Religion thin and thick : the development of religious studies in the American university -- Incurably religious : the American Academy of Religion at fifty-five -- American influence on the shape of things to come : religious studies in the twenty-first century -- Religious studies in North America during the Cold War -- The desire for moral validation -- Removing religion from the study of religion : a nineteenth-century innovation -- Modernism and the study of religion -- Rejecting a "science-lite" study of religion in the modern university -- Conclusion : need 'religious studies' remain 'conspicuously unscientific'? |
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| Item Description: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1350103446 |
| Access: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9781350103597 |