Theology and Religious Studies in Higher Education
Global Perspectives
- 208 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Theology and religious studies co-exist in the majority of departments in higher education institutions within the UK, yet there has been very little debate or discussion on how these two disciplines relate to one another in this context and on a more general level. This new collection of essays aims to redress the balance and to add to fruitful discussion in this area Including essays by some of today's leading academics on the sometimes contentious relationship between religious studies - or the study of religions - and theology, this volume is international in scope, with contributions from scholars from the UK, USA, South Africa, Netherlands, Sweden and Iran. Many of the essays offer a contextualised account of the evolving relationship between the disciplines. The contributors address such issues as the place of theology within today's universities; the problem of clashing methodologies in theology and religious studies; the possibility for a 'theological religious studies'; approaching the study of religions without theology; interdisciplinary approaches for bridging the theology/religious studies divide; and the place of biblical studies in the theology/religious studies debate.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. Religious Studies versus Theology: Why I’m still Glad that I Converted from Theology to Religious Studies
- 2. Theology and Religious Studies for a Multifaith and Secular Society
- 3. Theology and Religious Studies OR Theology versus Religious Studies?
- 4. Theology as the Past and Future of Religious Studies: An Incarnational Approach
- 5. The Irony of Religious Studies: A Pro-theological Argument from the Swedish Experience
- 6. The Inevitability of Normativity in the Study of Religion: Theology in Religious Studies
- 7. Towards a Socio-cultural, Non-theological Definition of Religion
- 8. A Spatial Analysis of the Relationship between Theology and Religious Studies: Knowledge-power Strategies and Metaphors of Containment and Separation
- 9. ‘A Coat of Many Colours’: Interweaving Strands in Theology and Religious Studies
- 10. Interdisciplinary Theology: Bridging the Theology/Religious Studies Divide
- 11. Recent Developments in Theology and Religious Studies: The South African Experience
- 12. The Place of Theology in Iranian Universities: The Challenges of Teaching Theology in Modern Iran
- 13. The Bible: Fringe or Hinge?
- Index