What’s Old Is New Again, But Still Pretty Old: Searching for a Post-Theory Turn in Religious Studies
Issued Date: 11 Nov 2019
Abstract
Editor’s Note: The following article was written as a contribution to a larger set of papers engaging Russell McCutcheon’s fascinating and important observation of a “post-theoretical shift” in the study of religion. That thematic set of papers did not come together. However, we wanted to publish this wonderful theoretical reflection by Craig Prentiss with the hope that it will contribute to an ongoing discussion in the field and we are appreciative that he agreed to publish this article as a stand-alone piece.
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Coakley, Sarah.1997. Religion and the Body. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.<br>
Durkheim, Emile, 1965 [1915]. The Elementary Forms of Religious
Life. New York: The Free Press.<br>
Eliade, Mircea. 1959. The Sacred and the Profane. New York:
Harcourt, Brace.<br>
Geslani, Marko. 2015. “Religion in the Post-Colonial Humanities: An
Interview with Kathryn Lofton.”Sacred Matters.
https://sacredmattersmagazine.com/<br>
religion-in-the-post-colonial-humanities-an-interview-with-kathryn-lofton-part-1/.<br>
Hall, David D., ed. 1995. Lived Religion in America: Toward a
History of Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press. <br>
Lofton, Kathryn. 2011. Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon.
Berkeley: University of California Press.<br>
———. 2017. Consuming Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<br>
McCutcheon, Russell T. 2017a. “Beyond Cynicism: A Sampling of
Current Work in the Swiss Study of Religion,” Bulletin for the Study
of Religion 46 (1), 3–6. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.30940.<br>
———. 2017b. “Feast and Famine in the Study of Religion.” In Theory
in a Time of Excess: Beyond Reflection and Explanation in Religious
Studies Scholarship, edited by Aaron Hughes, 191–202. Sheffield:
Equinox. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2018.<br>
1449495.<br>
McDannell, Colleen, 1995. Material Christianity: Religion and
Popular Culture in America. New Haven: Yale University Press.
https://doi.org/ 10.1017/s0009640700119742.<br>
Promey, Sally, and David Morgan, eds. 2001. The Visual Culture of
American Religions. Berkeley: University of California Press.<br>
Smith, William Cantwell. 1991 [1962]. The Meaning and End of
Religion. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.<br>
Turner, Bryan. 1980. “The Body and Religion: Towards an Alliance of
Medical Sociology and Sociology of Religion,” Annual Review of the
Social Sciences of Religion 4: 247–86. <br>
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