Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion

Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion presents a provocative critique of the unwillingness of modern scholars to publically distinguish research into comparative religion from confessional studies written within denominationally-affiliated institutions. A wide range of scholars reassess the methodology and ambition of contemporary religious research, arguing that conceptualizing religion as part of the world of human action and experience is the first requirement of the study of religion.

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Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Content
pp v-vi

Preface
pp vii-ix

Acknowledgments
pp x-x

Contributors
pp xi-xi

Epigraph
pp xii-xii

The Nerve of Donald Wiebe
pp 1-5

The Failure of Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion
pp 6-32

General Failures
pp 33-33

Catching Up with Marx: Truth, Myth, and the Niceties of “Belief”
pp 34-49

Fixed Geomorphologies and the Shifting Sands of Time
pp 50-61

A Critical History of Religion as a Psychological Phenomenon
pp 62-77

Everything Old Is New Again
pp 78-94

Revisiting the Confessional: Donald Wiebe's “Small ‘c’ Confessional,” Its Historical Entailments and Linguistic Entanglements
pp 95-110

Special Failures
pp 111-111

Failures (of Nerve?) in the Study of Islamic Origins
pp 112-128

The Failure of Islamic Studies Post-9/11: A Contextualization and Analysis
pp 129-146

Religious Studies that Really Schmecks: Introducing Food to the Academic Study of Religion
pp 147-156

Cultural Anthropology and Corinthian Food Fights: Structure and History in the Lord's Dinner
pp 157-176

The Identity of Q in the First Century: Reproducing a Theological Narrative
pp 177-191

The Failure of Nerve to Recognize Violence in Early Christianity: The Case of the Parable of the Assassin
pp 192-217

Redescribing Iconoclasm: Holey Frescoes and Identity Formation
pp 218-228

In Lieu of Conclusion
pp 229-229

The Irony of Religion
pp 230-238

Index of Authors
pp 239-243

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