Time Enough for Visions and Revisions; Or Why “Theory” Matters in the Study of Religion
Issue: Vol 40 No. 2 (2011)
Journal: Bulletin for the Study of Religion
Subject Areas: Religious Studies Buddhist Studies Islamic Studies Biblical Studies
Abstract:
This essay argues that by ignoring the past decade or so of theoretical self-reflection regarding how one best studies "religion,"Stephen Prothero's *God Is Not One* takes us right back to the same ecumenical vista where true religion is by definition never nasty or brutish.
Author: Matthew Day