Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities
Using Burton L. Mack’s work in Christian origins and its subsequent influence across the field as an example, this essay argues for a form of scholarship in which working on shared problems and curiosities, across seemingly discrete content specialties, is seen as an expertise to be cultivated among...
| Published in: | Method & theory in the study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 35, Issue: 5, Pages: 478-494 |
| Further subjects: | B
Burton Mack
B Origins B Specialization B generalist B Social formation B mythmaking B Christian Origins |
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| Summary: | Using Burton L. Mack’s work in Christian origins and its subsequent influence across the field as an example, this essay argues for a form of scholarship in which working on shared problems and curiosities, across seemingly discrete content specialties, is seen as an expertise to be cultivated among scholars in the study of religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-bja10101 |