Religious Studies, Theology, and the University: Conflicting Maps, Changing Terrain

by Cady, Linell Elizabeth; Brown, Delwin

• ISBN13: 9780791455227
• ISBN10: 079145522X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

This collection explores the highly contested relationship of religious studies and theology and the place of each, if any, in secular institutions of higher education. The founding narrative of religious studies, with its sharp distinction between teaching religion and teaching about religion, grows less compelling in the face of globalization and the erosion of modernism. These essays take up the challenge of thinking through the identity and borders of religious studies and theology for our time. Reflecting a broad range of positions, the authors explore the religious/secular conceptual landscape that has dominated the modern West, and in the process address the revision of the academic study of religion and theology now underway.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Linell E. Cady
Delwin Brown
The Study of Religion as an Anthropology of Credibility	13	(18)
Russell T. McCutcheon
Why ``Theology'' Won't Work	31	(14)
Ivan Strenski
Our Subject ``Over There?'' Scrutinizing the Distance Between Religion and Its Study	45	(20)
Christopher Chesnek
Other People's Theologies: The New Hubris of History of Religions	65	(16)
Richard C. Martin
Embodied Theology	81	(12)
Sam Gill
From Theology to theology: The Place of ``God-Talk'' in Religious Studies	93	(17)
William D. Hart
Territorial Disputes: Religious Studies and Theology in Transition	110	(16)
Linell E. Cady
Academic Theology in the University or Why an Ex-Queen's Heir Should Be Made a Subject	126	(14)
Delwin Brown
Rethinking Theology and Religious Studies	140	(15)
Sheila Greeve Davaney
Religious Studies and the Alienation of Theology	155	(17)
Darrell J. Fasching
The Place of Academic Theology in the Study of Religion from the Perspective of Liberal Education	172	(15)
Paula M. Cooey
The Epistemic Publicity of Academic Black Theology	187	(12)
Frederick L. Ware
Theology and Cultural Contest in the University	199	(14)
Kathryn Tanner
Bibliography	213	(12)
Contributors	225	(4)
Index	229