Revised: Comparative Religious Traditions*An early draft version of Professor Peter Ochs's essay was published in the 74:1 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR). This is the correct, revised version. The JAAR regrets the error.

Author: Ochs, Peter

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 74, Number 2, June 2006 , pp. 483-494(12)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Abstract:

Debates about “religious studies vs. theology” may be irresolvable because they are symptoms of a crisis of a different order: the academy's still-colonialist relation to our civilization(s)' folk-or-wisdom traditions, “religious” traditions in particular. Scholars of religious studies or theology practice a kind of “colonialism writ-small” when they remove their subject matter from its lived, societal contexts and re-situate it in conceptual worlds of their own devising. If endless debates follow, they concern these worlds we have constructed rather than the religions and theologies that we study.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfj056

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