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ISBN 10: 1350039802 ISBN 13: 9781350039803

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This is the first reader to gather primary sources from influential theorists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in one place, presenting the wide-ranging and nuanced theoretical debates occurring in the field of religious studies. Each chapter focuses on a major theorist and contains:

� an introduction contextualizing their key ideas
� one or two selections representative of the theorist's innovative methodological approach(es)
� discussion questions to extend and deepen reader engagement

Divided in three sections, the first part includes foundational comparative debates:
� Mary Douglas's articulation of purity and impurity
� Phyllis Trible's methods of reading sacred texts
� Wendy Doniger's comparative mythology
� Catherine Bell's reimagining of religious and secular ritual

The second part focuses on methodological particularity:
� Alice Walker's use of narrative
� Charles Long's critique of Eurocentricism
� Caroline Walker Bynum's emphasis on gender and materiality

The third section focuses on expanding boundaries:
� Gloria Anzald�a's work on borders and languages
� Judith Butler's critique of gender and sex norms
� Saba Mahmood's expansion on the critique of colonialism's secularizing demands

Reflecting the cultural turn and extending the existing canon, this is the anthology instructors have been waiting for.

For further detail on the theorists discussed, please consult Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Methods, edited by Sarah J. Bloesch and Meredith Minister.

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"Serving as brief intellectual-biographical histories, these essays illumine the preoccupations and priorities that have motivated influential scholars's work. While the text is not a required counterpart for the Reader, the editors note that its contributions profitably locate the span of its contents within personal and historiographical worlds, opening an aperture for students to further reflect on their own locations and the disciplinary contexts in which these texts are situated. It is also worth noting that these essays deserve careers of their own as documents of intellectual history and could be usefully assigned together or apart in graduate as well as undergraduate seminars." - Reading Religion

About the Author:

Sarah J. Bloesch is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University, USA. Her teaching and research interests focus on Christianity, critical race theory, and sexuality in the United States. Meredith Minister is Assistant Professor of Religion at Shenandoah University, USA. She teaches courses in religious studies and gender studies and is author of Trinitarian Theology and Power Relations: God Embodied (2014).

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PublisherBloomsbury Academic
Publication date2018
ISBN 10 1350039802
ISBN 13 9781350039803
BindingPaperback
Edition number1
Number of pages264
EditorMinister Meredith, Bloesch Sarah J.

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