Kevin Schilbrack, “A metaphysics for the study of religion: A critical reading of Russell McCutcheon”
Mitsutoshi Horii, “Historicizing the category of ‘religion’ in sociological theories: Max Weber and Emile Durkheim
Kenneth MacKendrick, “Does past religion have a past? Habermas, religion, and the sacred complex”
Timothy Fitzgerald, “Joel Harrison on Facts and Values, Critical Religion and on Bruno Latour”
I recently (22 Nov 2017) found the text for Joel Harrison’s podcast “Facts v. Values: Can Religious Studies Be More Critical?”[i] when I wandered onto Facebook. I think my cursor inadvertently hovered over a small region of e-territory and the article jumped out at me.
I was glad I saw the text and would like to contribute some discussion. Harrison’s piece is a defence of an editorial written by Warren Goldstein, Rebekka King and Jonathan Boyarin published in Critical Research on Religion (April 2016). This defence is turned against ‘critical religion’. I already responded to the CRR editorial several months ago, and I don’t know whether or not Harrison or Lucas Scott Wright has seen that (see CRR, vol. 4, 3: pp. 307-313, 2016).
Harrison’s article is also a discussion and advocacy of an essay by Bruno Latour, “Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern,” [Critical Inquiry 30, no. 2 (Winter 2004): 225-248. [https://doi.org/10.1086/421123]. Harrison thinks that ‘critical religion’ has valuable things to learn from Bruno Latour, and I think he is probably right. But I need to be clear what is being suggested. (more…)
Timothy Fitzgerald, “Critical religion and critical research on religion: A response to the April 2016 editorial”
Steven Engler, “Why be critical? Introducing a symposium on Capitalizing Religion”
The debate over the CRR Editorials continues…
Steven Engler, Review Symposium on Craig Martin’s Capitalizing Religion (2014)
Why be critical? Introducing a symposium on Capitalizing Religion
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0048721X.2016.1192831
Harrison and Wright, “Facts vs. Values: Can Religious Studies Be More Critical?”
Joel Harrison and Lucas Scott Wright
discuss April 2016 CRR Editorial
“Critical Theory of Religion vs. Critical Religion”
in a podcast:
Stacie Swain, “What’s in a name, a name rearranged?”
Stacie Swain on CRR Editorials:
http://practicumreligionblog.blogspot.ca/2016/04/whats-in-name-name-rearranged-part-1.html
Goldstein, King, and Boyarin, “Critical Theory of Religion vs. Critical Religion”
Moving on Up — and Out: On L. Benjamin Rolsky’s “The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left” - Los Angeles Review of Books
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John Compton reviews L. Benjamin Rolsky's recently published book, "The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left."Thanks for sharing!
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