On the Future of the Study of Religion in the Academy

Author: Griffiths, Paul J.

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 74, Number 1, March 2006 , pp. 66-74(9)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Abstract:

I argue first that `religion' is either a natural-kind sortal or an artifactual-kind sortal. Second, that whichever view is taken by practitioners of the academic study of religion, some normative understandings are implied. Third, that the constitutive desire of those who practice the academic study of religion—to do not-theology—therefore cannot be realized. And fourth, that the future of the academic study of religion is unlikely to be long or rosy.

Keywords: communicable disease; BCG; healthcare workers; gonococci; E. coli O157; radiation

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfj015

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