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Theory in a time of excess : beyond reflection and explanation in religious studies scholarship / edited by Aaron W. Hughes.

Contributor(s): Hughes, Aaron W, 1968- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing, Ltd., 2017Description: vi, 205 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781781794234; 1781794235; 9781781794241; 1781794243Subject(s): Religion -- Methodology | Religion -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 200.71 LOC classification: BL41 | .T487 2017Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Theory in a Time of Excess / Aaron W. Hughes -- Establishing a Beachhead : NAASR Twenty Years Later / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe -- On the Restraint of Theory / Jason N. Blum -- It's Hard Out There for a Theorist / Michael J. Altman -- Signifying "Theory" : Toward a Method of Mutually Assured Deconstruction / Richard Newton -- On the Restraint of Consciousness / Tara Baldrick-Morrone -- A Reply / Jason N. Blum -- The High Stakes of Identifying (with) One's Object of Study / K. Merinda Simmons -- New Materialism and the Objects of Religious Studies / Martha Smith Roberts -- Killing the Scholar : Critical Theory, Relevance, and Objects of Study / Thomas J. Whitley -- The Rhetoric of Disinterest for Authorizing our Critical Position : Historicizing Critical-Theory in Religious Studies / Stephen L. Young -- A Reply / K. Merinda Simmons -- What the Cognitive Science of Religion Is (and Is Not) / Claire White -- "Show me the Money" : Big-Money Donors and the Cognitive Science of Religion / Brad Stoddard -- Of Elephants and Riders : Cognition, Reason, and Will in the Study of Religion / Matt Sheedy -- A Reply / Claire White -- The Study of Religion, Bricolage and Brandom / Matthew C. Bagger -- Precision and Excess : Doing the Discipline of Religious Studies / Rebekka King -- On Druids, the Dude, and Doing Excessive Theory / James Dennis LoRusso -- Reliabilism and the Limits of Pragmatism / Robyn Faith Walsh -- A Reply / Matthew C. Bagger -- Theory is the Best Accessory : Branding and the Power of Scholarly Compartmentalization / Leslie Dorrough Smith -- Afterword : Feast and Famine in the Study of Religion / Russell T. McCutcheon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Theory in a Time of Excess / Aaron W. Hughes -- Establishing a Beachhead : NAASR Twenty Years Later / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe -- On the Restraint of Theory / Jason N. Blum -- It's Hard Out There for a Theorist / Michael J. Altman -- Signifying "Theory" : Toward a Method of Mutually Assured Deconstruction / Richard Newton -- On the Restraint of Consciousness / Tara Baldrick-Morrone -- A Reply / Jason N. Blum -- The High Stakes of Identifying (with) One's Object of Study / K. Merinda Simmons -- New Materialism and the Objects of Religious Studies / Martha Smith Roberts -- Killing the Scholar : Critical Theory, Relevance, and Objects of Study / Thomas J. Whitley -- The Rhetoric of Disinterest for Authorizing our Critical Position : Historicizing Critical-Theory in Religious Studies / Stephen L. Young -- A Reply / K. Merinda Simmons -- What the Cognitive Science of Religion Is (and Is Not) / Claire White -- "Show me the Money" : Big-Money Donors and the Cognitive Science of Religion / Brad Stoddard -- Of Elephants and Riders : Cognition, Reason, and Will in the Study of Religion / Matt Sheedy -- A Reply / Claire White -- The Study of Religion, Bricolage and Brandom / Matthew C. Bagger -- Precision and Excess : Doing the Discipline of Religious Studies / Rebekka King -- On Druids, the Dude, and Doing Excessive Theory / James Dennis LoRusso -- Reliabilism and the Limits of Pragmatism / Robyn Faith Walsh -- A Reply / Matthew C. Bagger -- Theory is the Best Accessory : Branding and the Power of Scholarly Compartmentalization / Leslie Dorrough Smith -- Afterword : Feast and Famine in the Study of Religion / Russell T. McCutcheon.

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