Establishing a beachhead or kicking up sand?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2013
Abstract
NAASR President William Arnal invited several members to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses, as well as the future direction of the organization, as part of a Presidential Panel at the 2012 annual meeting. My assessment, in the essay that follows, is that, since its founding NAASR and its related publications, have continued to play an important role in differentiating the academic study of religion from the more theologically minded work with which it is often confused. In my view, what makes the academic study of religion a discipline, as opposed to merely a field of study, is a shared sustained scholarly conversation on theoretical and methodological issues; NAASR is an important home to that conversation. © 2013 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden.
Publication Title
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion
Volume
25
Issue
4-5
First Page
325
Last Page
331
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1163/15700682-12341296
ISSN
09433058
E-ISSN
15700682
Citation Information
Ingersoll. (2013). Establishing a Beachhead or Kicking up Sand? Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 25(4-5), 325–331. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341296