Critical Terms for Religious Studies, Second Edition by Sarah... - 9780226720906

Critical Terms for Religious Studies, Second EditionAuthor(s): Sarah Hammerschlag\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226720906, 978-0226720906\nSynopsis\nA new edition of a classic resourcecomposed of twenty-three essays written specifically for this volume.\n\n First published nearly thirty years ago, Critical Terms for Religious Studies proved a vital resource for an emerging interdisciplinary conversation. We still use much of the same language in the study of religion, but fresh concerns have both changed the meaning of terms and given rise to new terms altogether. This edition consists of twenty-three entirely new essays that offer students and scholars alike the tools to historicize and evaluate the shifting role of familiar and emerging critical terms in religious studies.\n\n These are critical terms both because they are important in our cultural moment and because thinking through .