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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813040803321

Autore

Smith Jonathan Z

Titolo

On teaching religion : essays by Jonathan Z. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-19-025837-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 164 p.)

Disciplina

200.71

Soggetti

Religion - Study and teaching

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Religion - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Approaching the college classroom -- Religion in the academy -- Introductory course: less is better -- Basic problems in the study of religion -- Scriptures and histories -- Here and now: prospects for graduate education -- Connections -- Religious studies: whither (wither) and why? -- Are theological and religious studies compatible? -- Religion and religious studies: no difference at all -- Academic profession -- Re-forming the undergraduate curriculum: a retrospective -- Why the college major?: questioning the great unexplained aspect of undergraduate education puzzlement -- Puzzlement -- Towards imagining new frontiers -- To double business bound.

Sommario/riassunto

For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z. Smith has been among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion. He has also produced a significant corpus of essays and lectures on teaching and on the essential role of academic scholarship on religion in matters of education and public policy.  Smith's writings on these crucial issues for education have been largely inaccessible until now.