Historicizing and Deconstructing “Religion”

Autor(en)

Nickolas Roubekas

Abstrakt

In the last decades, scholars of the academic study of religion have vigorously called for a critical study of the very subject matter of the field, viz. “religion.” As the argu- ment goes, “religion” as a taxon is proven to be inadequate, problematic, and occasion- ally harmful as a scholarly classificatory tool. This essay offers a brief overview of the said problematization by focusing on some recent works by scholars primarily work- ing within the Anglophone world – whence most such representatives come from. The essay identifies two pivots in such argumentations and debates, namely, the historici- zation and the deconstruction of “religion” – with some scholars calling for a possible reconstruction of the term.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Religionswissenschaft

Seiten

19–33

Anzahl der Seiten

15

Publikationsdatum

2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

603909 Religionswissenschaft

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Religious studies

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/historicizing-and-deconstructing-religion(7423fc09-ec6e-4cba-92b2-ab5bd8afede3).html