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Religion and the Academy: Report on the Western Conference on British Studies Roundtable

Religion and the Academy: Report on the Western Conference on British Studies Roundtable © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/156852907X199189 Religion and the Arts 11 (2007) 242–249 www.brill.nl/rart RELIGION and the ARTS Conference Report Religion and the Academy: Report on the Western Conference on British Studies Roundtable Robert H. Ellison East Texas Baptist University “Will religion become the intellectual center of the academy?” Th is question was the topic of a roundtable I moderated at the October 2006 meeting of the Western Conference on British Studies. I was joined by Stephen Prickett, Director of the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University; Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Central Oklahoma; and Bob Tennant, Honorary Research Associate in the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Th e roundtable was inspired by Stanley Fish’s “One University Under God?,” which appeared in the January 7, 2005 issue of Th e Chronicle of Higher Education . In the final paragraph, Fish writes, “When Jacques Der- rida died I was called by a reporter who wanted know [sic] what would succeed high theory and the triumvirate of race, gender, and class as the center of intellectual energy in the academy. I answered like a shot: reli- gion.” Shortly before http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Religion and the Arts Brill

Religion and the Academy: Report on the Western Conference on British Studies Roundtable

Ellison, Robert
Religion and the Arts , Volume 11 (2): 242 – Jan 1, 2007
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/156852907X199189 Religion and the Arts 11 (2007) 242–249 www.brill.nl/rart RELIGION and the ARTS Conference Report Religion and the Academy: Report on the Western Conference on British Studies Roundtable Robert H. Ellison East Texas Baptist University “Will religion become the intellectual center of the academy?” Th is question was the topic of a roundtable I moderated at the October 2006 meeting of the Western Conference on British Studies. I was joined by Stephen Prickett, Director of the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University; Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Central Oklahoma; and Bob Tennant, Honorary Research Associate in the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Th e roundtable was inspired by Stanley Fish’s “One University Under God?,” which appeared in the January 7, 2005 issue of Th e Chronicle of Higher Education . In the final paragraph, Fish writes, “When Jacques Der- rida died I was called by a reporter who wanted know [sic] what would succeed high theory and the triumvirate of race, gender, and class as the center of intellectual energy in the academy. I answered like a shot: reli- gion.” Shortly before

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