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Constructing "data" in religious studies : examining the architecture of the academy / edited by Leslie Dorrough Smith.

Contributor(s): Smith, Leslie Dorrough, 1975- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: NAASR working papers: Publisher: Sheffield, UK Bristol, CT : Equinox, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: viii, 300 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781781796757; 1781796750; 9781781796764; 1781796769Subject(s): Religion -- Methodology | Religion -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 200.72 LOC classification: BL41 | .C588 2019Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"If I had a nickel for every time..." : thinking critically about "data" / Leslie Dorrough Smith -- Partitioning "religion" and is prehistories : reflections on categories, narratives, and the practice of religious studies / Annette Yoshiko Reed -- A more subtle violence : the footnoting of "the Aboriginal principle of witnessing" by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada / Adam Stewart -- Categorization and its discontents / M Adryael Tong -- Categorizing contrariety : narrative and taxonomy in the construction of Sikhism / John Soboslai -- Interrogating categories with ethnography : on the "five pillars" / Jennifer A. Selby -- Objects and objections : methodological reflections on the data for religious studies / Matthew C. Baldwin -- The red hot iron : religion, nonreligion, and the material / Petra Klug -- Surprised by history: encountering data in religious studies / Holly White -- Governance and public policy as critical objects of investigation in the study of religion / Peggy Schmeiser -- Negative dialektik and the question concerning the relation between objects and concepts / Lucas Wright -- "The thing itself always steals away" : scholars and the constitution of their objects of study / Craig Martin -- Scholars and the framing of objects / Vaia Touna -- Serial killers and scholars of religion / Martha Smith Roberts -- Caffeinated and half-baked realities : religion as the opium of the scholar / Jason W. M. Ellsworth -- On the seminal adventure of the trace / Joel Harrison -- Finding the devil in Indiana Jones : mythologies of work and the state of academic labor / James Dennis LoRusso -- Teaching in the ideological state of religious studies : notes towards a pedagogical future / Richard Newton -- Competencies and curricula : the role of academic departments in shaping the study of religion / Rebekka King -- Religious studies research in an era of neoliberalization / Gregory D. Alles -- The gatekeeping rhetoric of collegiality in the study of religion / Aaron W. Hughes and RUssell T. McCutcheon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"If I had a nickel for every time..." : thinking critically about "data" / Leslie Dorrough Smith -- Partitioning "religion" and is prehistories : reflections on categories, narratives, and the practice of religious studies / Annette Yoshiko Reed -- A more subtle violence : the footnoting of "the Aboriginal principle of witnessing" by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada / Adam Stewart -- Categorization and its discontents / M Adryael Tong -- Categorizing contrariety : narrative and taxonomy in the construction of Sikhism / John Soboslai -- Interrogating categories with ethnography : on the "five pillars" / Jennifer A. Selby -- Objects and objections : methodological reflections on the data for religious studies / Matthew C. Baldwin -- The red hot iron : religion, nonreligion, and the material / Petra Klug -- Surprised by history: encountering data in religious studies / Holly White -- Governance and public policy as critical objects of investigation in the study of religion / Peggy Schmeiser -- Negative dialektik and the question concerning the relation between objects and concepts / Lucas Wright -- "The thing itself always steals away" : scholars and the constitution of their objects of study / Craig Martin -- Scholars and the framing of objects / Vaia Touna -- Serial killers and scholars of religion / Martha Smith Roberts -- Caffeinated and half-baked realities : religion as the opium of the scholar / Jason W. M. Ellsworth -- On the seminal adventure of the trace / Joel Harrison -- Finding the devil in Indiana Jones : mythologies of work and the state of academic labor / James Dennis LoRusso -- Teaching in the ideological state of religious studies : notes towards a pedagogical future / Richard Newton -- Competencies and curricula : the role of academic departments in shaping the study of religion / Rebekka King -- Religious studies research in an era of neoliberalization / Gregory D. Alles -- The gatekeeping rhetoric of collegiality in the study of religion / Aaron W. Hughes and RUssell T. McCutcheon.

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