Forget worldviews: Towards a Deleuzian religious studies
In this essay I engage in a close analysis of three documents central to the push to place the worldview concept at the front and centre of Religious Studies in schools and universities - the 2018 Commission on Religious Education Report Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward, Worldview: A Multidi...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 23, Pages: 29-41 |
| Review of: | Worldview: a multidisciplinary report (2020) (Tremlett, Paul-François) The Worldview Project: discussion papers (2020) (Tremlett, Paul-François) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Commission on Religious Education
/ World view
/ Paradigm shift
/ The Postmodern
/ Science of Religion
/ Religious instruction
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AH Religious education |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | In this essay I engage in a close analysis of three documents central to the push to place the worldview concept at the front and centre of Religious Studies in schools and universities - the 2018 Commission on Religious Education Report Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward, Worldview: A Multidisciplinary Report (2020) and The Worldview Project: Discussion Papers (2020). I argue that the documents paint a picture of a subject caught between an objectivist account of a fixed field of really existing religions and a postmodern or Deleuzian mélange of lived interactions and flows. I advocate for a Deleuzian transformation of Religious Studies and the embrace of decolonisation and critical religious literacy, based in a vision of the study of religions as the study of relations and assemblages. |
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| ISSN: | 2516-6379 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18792/jbasr.v23i0.55 |
