Coherence, Professionalization, and the Critical Study of Religion: Then and Now
This short essay critically engages Claude Welch's Graduate Education in Religion (1971). For Welch the central challenge for the field of religious studies was to establish its "identity" in a post-Schempp world, referring to the landmark 1963 Supreme Court case that endorsed the st...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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Bulletin for the study of religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 50, Issue: 4, Pages: 156-159 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
North America
/ Science of Religion
/ The Humanities
/ Discipline (Science)
/ Specialization
/ University education
/ Vocational prospects
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion KBQ North America ZF Education |
| Further subjects: | B
graduate study in religion
B Welch B crisis in the humanities |
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| Summary: | This short essay critically engages Claude Welch's Graduate Education in Religion (1971). For Welch the central challenge for the field of religious studies was to establish its "identity" in a post-Schempp world, referring to the landmark 1963 Supreme Court case that endorsed the study of religion in U.S. higher education. Now the study of religion is firmly established in universities as part of the humanities. As such religion departments should respond to the broader crisis in the humanities. This article lays out some provisional recommendations, as Welch did in the early 70s. |
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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.21118 |