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Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism
Tyler T. Roberts
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Description for Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism
Paperback. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between secular and religious to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical academic study of religion and an ideological and authoritarian religion, he argues, only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, Roberts calls on intellectuals to approach the field as a site of encounter and response, illuminating the agency, creativity, and critical awareness of religious actors. To respond to religion is to ask what religious ... Read more
Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between secular and religious to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical academic study of religion and an ideological and authoritarian religion, he argues, only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, Roberts calls on intellectuals to approach the field as a site of encounter and response, illuminating the agency, creativity, and critical awareness of religious actors. To respond to religion is to ask what religious ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231147538
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V9780231147538
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About Tyler T. Roberts
Tyler Roberts is professor of religious studies at Grinnell College. He received his B.A. from Brown University and his M.T.S. and Th.D. from Harvard University. He is the author of Contesting Spirit: Nietzsche, Affirmation, Religion and has published essays on Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Zizek, and J. Z. Smith.
Reviews for Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism
A richly informed case for the humanistic cultural criticism of religions.
Kevin Schilbrack, Western Carolina University Tyler Roberts's work is the single most consequential programmatic work on the study of religion in the past several decades. It takes seriously, and treats charitably, a range of thinkers from J. Z. Smith and Rowan Williams to Saba Mahmood and Stanley Cavell, ... Read more
Kevin Schilbrack, Western Carolina University Tyler Roberts's work is the single most consequential programmatic work on the study of religion in the past several decades. It takes seriously, and treats charitably, a range of thinkers from J. Z. Smith and Rowan Williams to Saba Mahmood and Stanley Cavell, ... Read more