What’s Old Is New Again, But Still Pretty Old
Searching for a Post-Theory Turn in Religious Studies
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.38595Keywords:
Post-Theory Turn, Religious StudiesAbstract
Editor’s Note: The following article was written as a contribution to a larger set of papers engaging Russell McCutcheon’s fascinating and important observation of a “post-theoretical shift” in the study of religion. That thematic set of papers did not come together. However, we wanted to publish this wonderful theoretical reflection by Craig Prentiss with the hope that it will contribute to an ongoing discussion in the field and we are appreciative that he agreed to publish this article as a stand-alone piece.
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Lofton, Kathryn. 2011. Oprah:?The Gospel of an Icon. Berkeley:?University of California Press.
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McCutcheon, Russell T. 2017a. “Beyond Cynicism: A Sampling of Current Work in the Swiss Study of Religion,” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 46 (1), 3–6. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.30940.
———. 2017b. “Feast and Famine in the Study of Religion.” In Theory in a Time of Excess: Beyond Reflection and Explanation in Religious Studies Scholarship, edited by Aaron Hughes, 191–202. Sheffield: Equinox. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2018.1449495.
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Turner, Bryan. 1980. “The Body and Religion: Towards an Alliance of Medical Sociology and Sociology of Religion,” Annual Review of the Social Sciences of Religion 4: 247–86.
Published
2019-11-11
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How to Cite
Prentiss, C. (2019). What’s Old Is New Again, But Still Pretty Old: Searching for a Post-Theory Turn in Religious Studies. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 48(1-2), 4-9. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.38595
