A Modest Proposal on Method
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This paper offers a diagnosis as to why NAASR’s identity has become more ambiguous over the past decade (i.e., the appropriation of postmodernism to authorize polemical positions) and offers a proposal on how the more precise definition of this journal’s key terms—method and theory—might assist the association to provide a hospitable home for two different groups of scholars who are equally alienated from the field’s dominant form.
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See Arnal 1998, McCutcheon 1998, and also MacKendrick 1999 for the discussion that followed on the original publication of this essay.
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A Modest Proposal on Method
In: Method & Theory in the Study of ReligionSearch for other papers by Russell T. McCutcheon in
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Abstract
This paper offers a diagnosis as to why NAASR’s identity has become more ambiguous over the past decade (i.e., the appropriation of postmodernism to authorize polemical positions) and offers a proposal on how the more precise definition of this journal’s key terms—method and theory—might assist the association to provide a hospitable home for two different groups of scholars who are equally alienated from the field’s dominant form.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 295 | 55 | 3 |
| Full Text Views | 167 | 9 | 1 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 103 | 14 | 1 |