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.
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Manifestos and the Academic Study of Religion
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Comparing Methods in Christian Origins
Understanding Evangelical Opposition to Climate Action
On the Tantricization of Jain Ascetic Rituals
Human Rights in Australia | Discourse! March 2021
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Sex Scandals and Minoritized Religions
Following the Objects: Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria
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Religious Climate Activism | Discourse! February 2021
Beyond Ecological Essentialism: Critical and Constructive Muslim Environmentalisms
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