In this week’s episode Sam Gill joins RSP editor Andie Alexander to discuss his recent book The Proper Study of Religion: Building on Jonathan Z. Smith. They consider different methodological and theoretical questions in the academic study of religion, such as comparison, difference-making, play & movement, experience, and “storytracking”—a narrative technique and method for critical self-reflection and scholarly analysis. Gill outlines a playful and proper study of religion that builds on the work of the late J. Z. Smith and demonstrates how a critical scholar of religion might apply Smith’s methods in their own scholarship.
Fourteen to One! | Mid-Year Special 2015
Minority Religions and the Law
Discursive Approaches and the Crises of Religious Studies
Gender, queer theory and religion
Religious Demography in the US
Of Demons, Saints and Heaven: Andean religious beliefs in Peru
Indian Rationalism, and a Relational Approach to Nonreligion
Religion and Planetary Ethics
Religion and Film
The Invention of the Secular Academy
Religion, gender and corporeality
21st Century Irish Paganism
Lived Religion: Part 2
Lived Religion: Part 1
The Supernatural and the New Comparativism
Encounters Between Buddhism and the West
‘Religious’ and ‘Spiritual’ Struggles: Now in ‘Nonreligious’ and ‘Nonspiritual’ flavors!
Is Religion Special? A Critical Look at Religion, Wellbeing and Prosociality
Christian Reconstruction
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