Dialogues on Religion—and its Study

"Dialogues on Religion presents the reader with a selection of key, field-wide and, importantly, ongoing debates coupled with some of the most important up-and-coming voices now on the scene. It is designed to orient readers in an engaging and readable format, to the debates that have long defined-and some would say, plagued-the academic study of religion. Such topics include those issues/debates that have animated the field place since its exception, such as the tension between religious studies and theology. The volume will also include more recent issues now under debate, such as the place of scholarly activism as well as efforts to decolonize the field. Taken as a collection, the volume lays out the basis of each issue, the various voices that debate it, and the specific, even wider, issues that are at stake. Each chapter fairly represents the competing views and does so in a way accessible even to the relative newcomer. It is a must-read for all students of religion, as well as all those seeking to understand more about contemporary religious debates"--