RT Article
T1 The Religio non est sui generis Confession: Once More unto the Religious Studies / Theology Divide.
JF Toronto journal of theology
VO 30
IS 1
SP 101
OP 110
A1 Rennie, Bryan S. 1954-
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1961155982
AB Focusing on a recent Festschrift for Donald Wiebe but considering related work in the study of religion since the 1970s, this article argues that the distinction that Wiebe urged between the academic study of religion and the practice of theology remains viable, if difficult. Analysis of the claims of the Festschrift's editors concerning a ubiquitous "failure of nerve" in the academic study of religion indicates that it is, if anything, their nerve that has failed. They have concluded that any recognition of "religion" as a distinct and isolatable entity necessarily involves the postulation of a veridical access to some assumed transcendence and thus constitutes the practice, rather than the study, of religion. This claim is contested and a suggestion made for an academic study that does not involve any such postulate.
K1 Donald Wiebe
K1 failure of nerve
K1 Sacred
K1 study of religion
K1 Sui Generis
DO 10.3138/tjt.2020