A Modest Proposal on Method: Essaying the Study of Religion

By Russell T McCutcheon and McCutcheon Russell

Book Overview

A Modest Proposal on Method further documents methodological and institutional failings in the academic study of religion. This collection of essays--which includes three previously unpublished chapters--identifies the manner in which old problems (like the presumption that our object of study is a special, deeply meaningful case) yet remain in the field. But amidst the critique there are a variety of practical suggestions for how the science of religion can become methodologically even-handed and self-reflexive--the markings of a historically rigorous exercise. Each chapter is introduced and contextualized by a newly written, substantive introduction.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004281231
• ISBN13: 9789004281233
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"