Religious Proximity and Cultural Distance

An Introduction on the East/West Dichotomy

Authors

  • Philip L. Tite University of Washington

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v44i2.27605

Keywords:

East/West, Eastern Religions, Western Religions, Cultural Geography, Proximity, Human Geography, NAASR, Bulletin for the Study of Religion

Abstract

Editor's introduction to this issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion. Explores the East/West dichotomy in religious studies, situating the discussion within the framework of cultural and human geography (specifically processes of proximity and distance). Also introduces a two pieces related to the Bulletin's affiliation with NAASR (an interview with the new president, Russell McCutcheon, and the NAASR Notes).

Author Biography

  • Philip L. Tite, University of Washington

    Philip L. Tite is an Affiliate Lecturer at the University of Washington in Seattle WA USA. He holds a PhD degree from McGill University (2005) and has authored several books and articles. His most recent books include The Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans: An Epistolary and Rhetorical Analysis (TENT, 7; Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2012) and Valentinian Ethics and Paraenetic Discourse: Determining the Social Function of Moral Exhortation in Valentinian Christianity (NHMS, 67; Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2009). As a specialist in the study of early Christianity, in particular Valentinian Gnosticism, Tite has strong interests in elucidating social processes at work in the study of religious phenomena. He also has strong interests in method and theory, religion and violence, and pedagogical issues in the academic study of religion.

References

Owen, Suzanne. 2011. “The World Religions Para- digm: Time for a Change.” Arts & Humanities in Higher Education 10 (3): 253–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474022211408038

Tite, Philip L. 2014. “Teaching Beyond the World Re- ligions Paradigm.” Bulletin for the Study of Religion Blog. http://www.equinoxpub.com/blog/2014/08/ teaching-beyond-the-world-religions-paradigm/

Tomlinson, John. 2000. “Proximity Politics.” Information, Communication & Society 3 (3): 402–14.

Torre, Andre and Alain Rallet. 2005. “Proximity and Lo- calization.” Regional Studies 391: 47–59.

Tse, Justin K. H. 2014. “Grounded Theologies: ‘Religion’ and the ‘Secular’ in Human Geography.” Progress in Human Geography 38 (2): 201–20.

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Published

2015-07-14

Issue

Vol. 44 No. 2 (2015)

Section

The Editorial

How to Cite

Tite, P. (2015). Religious Proximity and Cultural Distance: An Introduction on the East/West Dichotomy. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 44(2), 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v44i2.27605