Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion: Essays in Honor of Donald Wiebe

✍ Scribed by William E. Arnal, Willi Braun, Russell T. McCutcheon

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 256
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Dedication
The Nerve of Donald Wiebe
The Failure of Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion
General Failures
Catching Up with Marx: Truth, Myth, and the Niceties of “Belief”
Fixed Geomorphologies and the Shifting Sands of Time
A Critical History of Religion as a Psychological Phenomenon
Everything Old Is New Again
Revisiting the Confessional: Donald Wiebe’s “Small ‘c’ Confessional,” Its Historical Entailments and Linguistic Entanglements
Special Failures
Failures (of Nerve?) in the Study of Islamic Origins
The Failure of Islamic Studies Post-9/11: A Contextualization and Analysis
Religious Studies that Really Schmecks: Introducing Food to the Academic Study of Religion
Cultural Anthropology and Corinthian Food Fights: Structure and History in the Lord's Dinner
The Identity of Q in the First Century: Reproducing a Theological Narrative
The Failure of Nerve to Recognize Violence in Early Christianity: The Case of the Parable of the Assassin
Redescribing Iconoclasm: Holey Frescoes and Identity Formation
In Lieu of Conclusion
The Irony of Religion
Index of Authors

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