Rock, Rattle, and Roll

Rattling Cages and Challenging the Study of Religion

Authors

  • Philip L. Tite University of Washington

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.37302

Keywords:

study of religion, editorial

Author Biography

  • Philip L. Tite, University of Washington

    Philip L. Tite is an Affiliate Lecturer at the University of Washington and an adjunct instructor at Seattle University 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

Altman, Michael. 2017. Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, 1721-1893. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190654924.001.0001.

Hughes, Aaron W., ed. 2017. Theory in a Time of Excess: Beyond Reflection and Explanation in Religious Studies Scholarship. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing.

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Published

2018-09-24

Issue

Section

The Editorial

How to Cite

Tite, P. (2018). Rock, Rattle, and Roll: Rattling Cages and Challenging the Study of Religion. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 47(2), 1. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.37302