Religious Studies, Theology, and the University

Conflicting Maps, Changing Terrain

Linell E. Cady, Delwin Brown, Linell E. Cady, Delwin Brown

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN: 9780791455227, 9780791455210
• eBook ISBN: 9780791487846
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

This collection explores the highly contested relationship of religious studies and theology and the place of each, if any, in secular institutions of higher education. The founding narrative of religious studies, with its sharp distinction between teaching religion and teaching about religion, grows less compelling in the face of globalization and the erosion of modernism. These essays take up the challenge of thinking through the identity and borders of religious studies and theology for our time. Reflecting a broad range of positions, the authors explore the religious/secular conceptual landscape that has dominated the modern West, and in the process address the revision of the academic study of religion and theology now underway.

Table of contents

• Religious Studies,Theology,and the University
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Study of Religion as an Anthropology of Credibility
• 3. Why “Theology”Won’t Work
• 4. Our Subject “Over There”?Scrutinizing the Distance Between Religion and Its Study
• 5. Other People’s Theologies:The New Hubris of History of Religions
• 6. Embodied Theology
• 7. From Theology to theology:The Place of “God-Talk”in Religious Studies
• 8. Territorial Disputes:Religious Studies andTheology in Transition
• 9. Academic Theology in the UniversityorWhy an Ex-Queen’s Heir Should Be Made a Subject
• 10. Rethinking Theologyand Religious Studies
• 11. Religious Studies and the Alienation of Theology
• 12. The Place of Academic Theology in the Study of Religion from the Perspective of Liberal Education
• 13. The Epistemic Publicity of Academic Black Theology
• 14. Theology and Cultural Contest in the University
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index