Theory & Method
Exporting the Local: Recent Perspectives on ‘Religion’ as a Cultural Category
By , CNRS-Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3 (Translated from the French by Arthur McCalla) (November 2007)
Section: Theory & Method
Subjects: Japanese Religious Traditions, Buddhism, Hinduism, Religion, Indian Traditions, Theory and Method in Religion, Shinto.
Places: Japan, Southern Asia, Asia, India, Eastern Asia.
Key Topic: colonialism.
Abstract
This article examines new perspectives in the field of religious studies recently opened up by the works of T. Fitzgerald, R. McCutcheon, R. King, T. Masuzawa, G. A. Oddie and D. Dubuisson. It begins, however, by taking up the origin and history of these studies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries so as to underline the paradoxes and impasses that still too often characterize them today.
Cet article examine quelques-unes des plus récentes perspectives ouvertes dans le domaine des religious studies par les travaux de T. Fitzgerald, R. McCutcheon, R. King, T. Masuzawa, G. A. Oddie et D. Dubuisson. Mais il revient pour commencer sur l’origine et l’histoire de ces études aux XIXe et XXe siècles afin de souligner les paradoxes et apories qui les caractérisent encore trop souvent aujourd’hui.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2007.00049.x
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