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Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Working Papers from Hannover
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Since the downfall of the phenomenology of religion as the leading paradigm in the study of religion in the 1960s, theoretical and methodological discussions surrounding the nature and identity of the study of religion as an academic discipline have proliferated. The essays included in this volume approach these debates from a variety of angles. Based on a series of talks held at the University of Hannover over the last few years, the essays are intended to be understood as diagnostic works in progress and thus as working papers, all of which strive to point out important problems and perspectives in the field of theories and methodology and to draw attention to the future of the discipline. Using developments in Hanover as a launch pad, the volume forms the basis for further insights into the direction of the study of religion as a discipline at large.
Steffen Führding, Ph.D.. (1981), Leibniz University Hannover, teaches at the Department for the Study of Religion at that same university. He has published on the history of the study of religion and theoretical debates within the discipline, including Jenseits von Religion (transcript, 2015).
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Theory, Method, Hannover, and the Study of Religion
Steffen Führding
2 Comparison, Practice, and Meaning: Martin Riesebrodt’s Theory of Religion
Alexander van der Haven
3 A Plea for the Study of Religions
Peter Antes
4 Study of Religions in the Era of Globalization of Differences: The Concept of Agonistic Context
Břetislav Horyna
5 “Man is the Measure of All Things…”: On The Fabrication of Oriental Religions by European History of Religions
Russell T. McCutcheon
6 Will the Real Fundamentalist Please Stand?: Scholars and the Category of ‘Fundamentalism’
Leslie Dorrough Smith
7 The Ideology of Religious Studies Revisited: Abolishing Politics
Timothy Fitzgerald
8 Christian Origins and the Gospel of Mark
Willi Braun
9 God as Hypothesis: Daniel Paul Schreber and the Study of Religion
Alexander van der Haven
10 RS-Based RE – Uphill, Uphill, and Uphill!
Tim Jensen
11 The Study of Islamic Education, A Litmus Test on State Relations to Muslim Minorities
Jenny Berglund
12 Afterword: The Academic Study of Religions Betwixt and between Different Interests
Wanda Alberts
Index
List of Contributors
Introduction: Theory, Method, Hannover, and the Study of Religion
Steffen Führding
2 Comparison, Practice, and Meaning: Martin Riesebrodt’s Theory of Religion
Alexander van der Haven
3 A Plea for the Study of Religions
Peter Antes
4 Study of Religions in the Era of Globalization of Differences: The Concept of Agonistic Context
Břetislav Horyna
5 “Man is the Measure of All Things…”: On The Fabrication of Oriental Religions by European History of Religions
Russell T. McCutcheon
6 Will the Real Fundamentalist Please Stand?: Scholars and the Category of ‘Fundamentalism’
Leslie Dorrough Smith
7 The Ideology of Religious Studies Revisited: Abolishing Politics
Timothy Fitzgerald
8 Christian Origins and the Gospel of Mark
Willi Braun
9 God as Hypothesis: Daniel Paul Schreber and the Study of Religion
Alexander van der Haven
10 RS-Based RE – Uphill, Uphill, and Uphill!
Tim Jensen
11 The Study of Islamic Education, A Litmus Test on State Relations to Muslim Minorities
Jenny Berglund
12 Afterword: The Academic Study of Religions Betwixt and between Different Interests
Wanda Alberts
Index
All interested in the history of the Study of Religion and theoretical debates within this discipline.