Diversity: Religions and the Study of Religion

Author: Van Den Heever, Gerhard¹

Source: Religion and Theology, Volume 11, Numbers 3-4, 2004 , pp. 199-218(20)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

In this essay an overview of the theoretical issues pertaining to the collection of essays assembled is given. Addressing the issue of dizversity in religions and in the study of religion the argument is made that religions as lived phenomena constitute discursive formations in which diversity as a problem is an index of encounter. However it is especially the way this strategy of reducing the many to the one in the history of theorising religion that comes in view. In this context, the political nature of religion as discourse and the discourse of the study of religion is discussed with particular reference to the history of Christianisation of South Africa, religion in education, and the history of theorising religion.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1163/157430104X00096

Affiliations: 1: Department of New Testament University of South Africa P O. Box 392, Pretoria, 0003 Republic of South Africa

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