Theory in a time of excess : beyond reflection and explanation in religious studies scholarship /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hughes, Aaron W., 1968- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, Connecticut : Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2017.
Subjects:	Religion > Methodology. Religion > Study and teaching.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Theory in a Time of Excess / Aaron W. Hughes
Establishing a Beachhead : NAASR, Twenty Years Later / Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe
On the Restraint of Theory / Jason N. Blum
It's Hard Out There for a Theorist / Michael J. Altman
Signifying "Theory" : Toward a Method of Mutually Assured Deconstruction / Richard Newton
On the Restraint of Consciousness / Tara Baldrick-Morrone
A Reply / Jason N. Blum
The High Stakes of Identifying (with) One's Object of Study / K. Merinda Simmons
New Materialism and the Objects of Religious Studies / Martha Smith Roberts
Killing the Scholar : Critical Theory, Relevance, and Objects of Study / Thomas J. Whitley
The Rhetoric of Disinterest for Authorizing our Critical Position : Historicizing Critical Theory in Religious Studies / Stephen L. Young
A Reply / K. Merinda Simmons
What the Cognitive Science of Religion Is (and Is Not) / Claire White
"Show me the Money" : Big-Money Donors and the Cognitive Science of Religion / Brad Stoddard
Of Elephants and Riders : Cognition, Reason, and Will in the Study of Religion / Matt Sheedy
A Reply / Claire White
The Study of Religion, Bricolage and Brandom / Matthew C. Bagger
Precision and Excess : Doing the Discipline of Religious Studies / Rebekka King
On Druids, the Dude, and Doing Excessive Theory / James Dennis LoRusso
Reliabilism and the Limits of Pragmatism / Robyn Faith Walsh
A Reply / Matthew C. Bagger
Theory is the Best Accessory : Branding and the Power of Scholarly Compartmentalization / Leslie Dorrough Smith
Afterword : Feast and Famine in the Study of Religion / Russell T. McCutcheon.