Our Primary Expertise

Contents
Preface
Sources

“And He Was Gone”: An Introduction

Part I: Overview
1. Religious Studies: Wither and Why?

Part II: Contributions
2. Introduction: Not Playing Favorites
“It’s a Lie. There’s No Truth in it! It’s a Sin!”: On the Limits of the Humanistic Study of Religion and the Costs of Saving Others from Themselves
3. Introduction: Complicating Not Simplifying
“And That’s Why No One Takes the Humanities Seriously”
4. Introduction: Scrutinizing Structures
The Gatekeeping Rhetoric of Collegiality in the Study of Religion (co-authored with Aaron W. Hughes)
5. Introduction: Practicing Self-Reflexivity
Scholars are People Too: The (Sometimes) Difficult Shift to the Discourse of Crisis
6. Introduction: Redescribing Claims
The Situated Nature of “I’m Spiritual but Not Religious” Claims (co-authored with Andie Alexander)
7. Introduction: Relevance through Generalization
Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities
 
Afterword
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Index