Pub Date : 2020-07-28DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341498
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm
In this short response, Storm challenges the limitations of the academic manifesto as a genre, criticizes tendencies toward a naive view of science in the study of religion, and gestures instead at the need for a comprehensive revolution in the human sciences.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-28DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341496
T. Fitzgerald
In his critique of my 2007 monograph Discourse on Civility and Barbarity: a Critical History of Religion and Related Categories, Daniel Miller attributes me with the error of transcendental historicism and an illusion of cultural authenticity. Miller’s challenge leads me to the question ‘what is history?’—what does it mean to be ‘in history’, or to be ‘out of history’, or to be a ‘historical agent’? I also defend myself against the charge of cultural essentialism by questioning the essentially empty term ‘culture’. First, though, I challenge Miller for his continual insistence that my work is ‘political’. Miller seems to accept at least some aspects of my critique of ‘religion’. However, he does not mention that DCB is as much concerned with the invention of a noun word discourse on ‘politics’ as it is with the invention of ‘religion’. ‘Politics’ and the ‘nation state’ were invented by men of substantial property ambitions to organise, normalise and protect male private property accumulation. Rather than being the foundation of our democratic rights, a gateway to equality and emancipation, ‘politics’ promotes and globally facilitates the processes of ‘accumulation by dispossession’.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-24DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341494
L. Smith
Scholars commonly compare and distinguish “religion” and “politics” in their analyses of certain social groups; they often do so in a way that presumes that such terms denote complicated yet still discrete realms that exist in varying degrees of interrelationship. Using the Christian Right as a case study, this essay proposes that we can draw from Bruce Lincoln and Oliver Freiberger’s insights regarding the methodological uses of comparison to reconsider how the terms “religion” and “politics” are deployed in our analyses. Rather than view these concepts as mirrors of some objective reality, scholars can create more robust critical perspectives if they treat these terms as insider products—that is, as flexible rhetorical categories modified by group insiders to achieve certain social effects.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-24DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341493
B. Lincoln
In response to the other articles in this issue, the author stresses the need to compare concrete examples, rather than general categories and reflects on the ethical problems arising from his earlier discussion of Edward Hunt’s published variant of Acoma myth, a text that Acoma tribal authorities reject and consider a betrayal of their traditions and authority.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-23DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341504
J. Bronkhorst
This article first predicts, on the basis of an analysis of deep absorption, a number of features of mystical and related states of consciousness. It then observes that these very same features appear in beliefs held by people who have never experienced deep absorption. Moreover, many people engage in activities that, though not normally leading to deep absorption, bring about lesser states of absorption. The article will propose an answer to the question how it is that many people are influenced in their beliefs and practices by experiences (deep absorption) they have not had.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341495
Leonardo Ambasciano
The present article offers a selection of recollections about the author’s professional relationship with his mentor during his cursus studiorum as a graduate student and as a Ph.D. candidate. These memories are preceded by a series of critical reflections on the current state of both Religious Studies and the History of Religions, with a comparative focus on the 1960 scientific mandate of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) and the UK institutional conflation of Theology and Religious Studies (TRS) through the lenses of the early and pioneering Italian experience. Hopefully, these notes will also prompt a much-needed frank conversation on such delicate topics.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-13DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341502
Vaia Touna
A response to Donald Wiebe’s Manifesto.
对唐纳德·维贝宣言的回应。
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Pub Date : 2020-07-13DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341497
J. Jensen
A point by point response to Wiebe’s ‘Manifesto’, mostly in support of the ‘methodological naturalism’—with added precautions on the current use of the term ‘science’. A philosophy for the study of religion is called for, with an epistemological range that caters for collective methodologies and social ontologies; respects the analytic distinction between ‘subject matter’ and ‘theoretical object’—and, ultimately, the theory-ladenness of all talk about ‘religion’. Naturalism is not about givens in the study of meaningful human behavior.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-09DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341499
Nancy K. Levene
A response to Donald Wiebe’s call for a scientific study of religion.
这是对唐纳德·维贝呼吁对宗教进行科学研究的回应。
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