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Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism after Secularism. By Tyler Roberts

Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism after Secularism. By Tyler Roberts 1158 Journal of the American Academy of Religion needs to play a role in the analysis. These absences aside, the text is certainly worth a read and will change how you think about dancing culture religion. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfu060 Darlene M. Juschka Advance Access publication July 22, 2014 University of Regina Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism after Secularism.By Tyler Roberts. Columbia University Press, 2013. 300+xiii pages. $55.00. Encountering Religion is an important and worthwhile book, which advances a high-level proposal as to how the study of religion can do justice to its status as a human undertaking. In this book, Tyler Roberts takes issue with one species of “secularism” in the study of religion and affirms a broader yet still recognizably secular approach. A narrow and blinkered secularism confines scholarship within prominently marked boundaries; Roberts encourages scholars to wade into the waters, so to speak, of religion. In the first chapters, Roberts is concerned with recent work by such scholars as Willi Braun, Gary Lease, Bruce Lincoln, Russell McCutcheon, and Donald Wiebe. These scholars (some more than others) promote a secularist model by asserting “clear, impermeable boundaries between religion or theology and the study of religion” (62). Roberts notes the recent http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Academy of Religion Oxford University Press

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Oxford University Press
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The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissionsoup.com
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BOOK REVIEWS
ISSN
0002-7189
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1477-4585
DOI
10.1093/jaarel/lfu056
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1158 Journal of the American Academy of Religion needs to play a role in the analysis. These absences aside, the text is certainly worth a read and will change how you think about dancing culture religion. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfu060 Darlene M. Juschka Advance Access publication July 22, 2014 University of Regina Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism after Secularism.By Tyler Roberts. Columbia University Press, 2013. 300+xiii pages. $55.00. Encountering Religion is an important and worthwhile book, which advances a high-level proposal as to how the study of religion can do justice to its status as a human undertaking. In this book, Tyler Roberts takes issue with one species of “secularism” in the study of religion and affirms a broader yet still recognizably secular approach. A narrow and blinkered secularism confines scholarship within prominently marked boundaries; Roberts encourages scholars to wade into the waters, so to speak, of religion. In the first chapters, Roberts is concerned with recent work by such scholars as Willi Braun, Gary Lease, Bruce Lincoln, Russell McCutcheon, and Donald Wiebe. These scholars (some more than others) promote a secularist model by asserting “clear, impermeable boundaries between religion or theology and the study of religion” (62). Roberts notes the recent

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