ABSTRACT
The term ‘postmodernism’ can mean many things. Here, with the term being deployed in connection with the study of religion, it is primarily taken to refer to a mode/s of inquiry whereby religion (or, for that matter, anything else) is investigated. The key theme in what follows is that postmodernism, reacting to Enlightenment thought, questions – even disgards – the possibility of arriving at the truth, the essential, the clear-cut definition or interpretation, the explanation. Regarding the most extreme forms of postmodernism, this means that the study of religion comes to a close. However, it will be seen that in less radical forms postmodern thought can enrich debates about what is involved in studying religion.
