TY - BOOK AU - Elliott,Scott S. TI - Reinventing religious studies: key writings in the history of a discipline SN - 978-1-84465-655-4 U1 - 200.71 23A PY - 2013/// CY - Durham PB - Acumen KW - Religion / Study and teaching KW - Religion / Methodology N1 - Bibliogr. p. 253-264; Introduction; Scott S. Elliott --; For such a time as this : the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion, 1969-2009; Harold Remus --; Why a council on the study of religion?; Claude Welch --; Ironies; John F. Wilson --; Religious studies : the next vocation; Jacob Neusner --; Impressions from Wingspread : religious studies--the state of the art; Walter H. Capps --; History of religions; Ninian Smart --; The future of religious studies : moving beyond the mandate of the 1960s; Carl A. Raschke --; Naming the game : a question of the field; Charles Elliott Vernoff --; Neutrality in the study of religion; John H. Whittaker --; Assessing social-scientific theories of religion; Robert A. Segal --; Playing hardball in religious studies; Arvind Sharma --; The academic study of religion : a methodological reflection; Arvind Sharma --; Fending off the social sciences; Robert A. Segal --; Confessions of a former establishment fundamentalist; Robert N. Bellah --; Confessing away the soul with the sins, or the risks of Uncle Tomism among the humanists : a reply to Robert Bellah; James E. Dittes --; Criteria for organizing the introductory course in religion; James C. Livingston --; Teaching about religion at the state university : taking the issue seriously and strictly; Robert N. Minor and Robert D. Baird --; Teaching about religion at the state university : a reply; Julia Benton Mitchell and David B. Annis --; Teaching about religion at the religiously affiliated university : taking the issue seriously and strictly--a reply to Robert Baird and Robert Minor; Philip Boo Riley --; For the advancement of my career : a form critical study in the art of acknowledgment; Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow Goldenberg --; Women's studies in religion; Carol Christ --; The debut of the Bible as a pagan classic; John A. Miles, Jr. --; Bible and religion; Jonathan Z. Smith --; Contemporary socio-political change and the work of religious studies; Walter H. Capps --; The scholar of religion as a cultural critic : perspectives from Denmark; Tim Jensen --; What are the humanities and why do they matter? : the case of religion and public life; Gary Lease --; Response to Gary Lease's "What are the humanities, and why do they matter?"; Robert Hunt --; So, what are we professing here? : religion, the liberal arts, and civic life; Raymond B. Williams --; Response to Raymond B. Williams's "So, what are we professing here? Religion, the liberal arts, and civic life"; Heather Hartel --; Response to Raymond B. Williams's "So, what are we professing here? Religion, the liberal arts, and civic life"; Robert J. Stephens --; Response to Raymond B. Williams's "So, what are we professing here? Religion, the liberal arts, and civic life"; Forrest Clingerman --; Rejoinder; Raymond B. Williams --; Late capitalism arrives on campus : making and remaking the study of religion; Russell T. McCutcheon --; Religious studies and identity politics : mythology in the making; Darlene Juschka --; Toward an engaged religious studies; Brian E. Malley --; The study of religion under late capitalism, or commodity triumphant; Gustavo Benavides --; On the teaching of Islam in America; Richard C. Martin --; Reflections on teaching about September 11; edited by Craig R. Prentiss; Terror and violence through Buddhist lenses; Stephen C. Berkwitz --; Teaching through tragedy; Patricia Zimmerman Beckman --; Teaching September 11; Elizabeth McAlister --; Class on September 11; Richard Salter --; Death and memory at Ground Zero : a historian of religion's report; Paul Christopher Johnson--; September 11, 2001 and Islam; Zayn Kassam ER -