{"title":"Always Know What You’re Asking When You Ask It: Questions, Answers, and the Enduring Legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith","authors":"Emily D. Crews","doi":"10.1163/15700682-12341455","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\nThis article considers the work of Jonathan Z. Smith, with particular focus on his essay “When the Bough Breaks.” After a brief summary of the essay, I will place it and its contributions within the broader context of my interactions with Smith and his work, reflecting on the ways in which Smith’s scholarship has allowed me to understand the vital relationship between the questions we ask as scholars and the answers we offer.","PeriodicalId":44982,"journal":{"name":"Method & Theory in the Study of Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2019-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15700682-12341455","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Method & Theory in the Study of Religion","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341455","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article considers the work of Jonathan Z. Smith, with particular focus on his essay “When the Bough Breaks.” After a brief summary of the essay, I will place it and its contributions within the broader context of my interactions with Smith and his work, reflecting on the ways in which Smith’s scholarship has allowed me to understand the vital relationship between the questions we ask as scholars and the answers we offer.
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Method & Theory in the Study of Religion publishes articles, notes, book reviews and letters which explicitly address the problems of methodology and theory in the academic study of religion. This includes such traditional points of departure as history, philosophy, anthropology and sociology, but also the natural sciences, and such newer disciplinary approaches as feminist theory and studies. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion also concentrates on the critical analysis of theoretical problems prominent in the study of religion.