Scary Scholarship

A Response to Bruce Lincoln’s Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars

Authors

  • K. Merinda Simmons University of Alabama

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v42i2.20

Keywords:

Bruce Lincoln, scholarship and methodology, religious studies

Abstract

Bruce Lincoln's recent book, Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions, is a text whose critical offerings threaten analytical engagements that suggest that we answer to those subjects we study. Lincoln, instead, appeals to an uncompromising critical self-reflexiveness that, while potentially uncomfortable--and even scary--forces a vital conversation in the academic study of religion.

Author Biography

  • K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama

    K. Merinda Simmons is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. Areas of research and teaching include theories of gender and race, Southern Studies, and literary theory.

References

Laqueur, Thomas. 1992. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Lincoln, Bruce. 2012. Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

O’Connor, Flannery. 1961. “The Fiction Writer and His Country.” In Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, 25–35. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Published

2013-04-03

Issue

Vol. 42 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Simmons, K. M. (2013). Scary Scholarship: A Response to Bruce Lincoln’s Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 42(2), 20-24. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v42i2.20