RT Article
T1 What is Religious Studies?
JF Journal for the academic study of religion
VO 36
IS 3
SP 281
OP 292
A1 Milani, Milad
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1885746245
AB This address was given in-person at the 2023 annual conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion, hosted by the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney. The purpose of the address was to raise the question about the fundamental aspects of our thinking about religion, and via this process of inquiry to underline the importance of our relationship to words, ideas, and their meaning. So as not to take for granted our existing relationship to the language we use, but to recognise that we are always and already in such a relationship. Thinking about religion, therefore, becomes not only the process but the nature of our being in relation to what we understand about religion. The talk drew upon my reflection on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, the mysticism of Meister Eckhart, and Zen Buddhism - the cross section of which was made particularly significant for me in reading Caputo's The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought. All of this, however, is underpinned by the methodological remarks made by Trompf about religious studies in In Search of Origins; something that has stayed with me since my time studying at the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney.
K1 Martin Heidegger
K1 Religious Studies
K1 Higher Education
K1 History of ideas
K1 humanities and social sciences
K1 Philosophy
DO 10.1558/jasr.27493