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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 182-195 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal for the Academic Study of Religion |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 2-3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Keywords
- religion
- islam
- sufism
- religious studies
- philosophy
- history
- theory and method
- Heidegger
- history of ideas