L. Woodhead, J. Richardson, M. Percy, C. Wessinger, E. Barker
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I wish I had been present at the 1993 annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of
Religion (SSSR) when Professor Eileen Barker delivered her subversive presidential address:
“The Scientific Study of Religion? You Must Be Joking!” I imagine that not all audience members
were delighted. The address lives up to its billing, driving a cart and horses through pervasive
positivistic assumptions in the study of religion and ushering in a very different approach.
I will not pretend that it changed my life the first time I read it, but I have gone back to it time
and again, and it continues to illuminate and inspire.