Religious Studies and Race: The Wherefores of a Working Group
At the 2019 meeting of the AAR in San Diego, California, Richard Newton, Emily Crews, and Merinda Simmons led a workshop discussing the current state of race studies in academia, particularly in light of NAASR’s attempts to locate itself among other fields undergoing similar work. While highlighting...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Bulletin for the study of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 49, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 26-29 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Science of Religion
/ Critical race theory
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
Richard Newton
B NAASR B Religious Studies B Race B Merinda Simmons B Emily Crews |
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| Summary: | At the 2019 meeting of the AAR in San Diego, California, Richard Newton, Emily Crews, and Merinda Simmons led a workshop discussing the current state of race studies in academia, particularly in light of NAASR’s attempts to locate itself among other fields undergoing similar work. While highlighting work occurring outside our field, Simmons et. Al addressed the need for discussions in our field to become more proactive rather than reactive, urging scholars to move beyond debates that surround descriptive ethnographies and crypto-theologies and to instead use our skills to discuss more than the trouble spots we have located within our field. |
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| ISSN: | 2041-1871 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bsor.17727 |