Reflections on an Academic Pursuit of Religion

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Abstract

The study of religion is a contested field of investigation that has for the past two decades challenged my thinking on the subject. 'An unofficial philosopher of religion who received his academic training from a historian' sums up my story as an accidental scholar of religion. On the whole, I see my work as a series of successive leaps, unbound by any one particular project. As a mid-career academic, I am in the process of yet another leap, as it were. The one thing that anchors what I do is the simultaneous historical and philosophical pursuit of what religion is.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)182-195
Number of pages14
JournalJournal for the Academic Study of Religion
Volume32
Issue number2-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Keywords

  • religion
  • islam
  • sufism
  • religious studies
  • philosophy
  • history
  • theory and method
  • Heidegger
  • history of ideas

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