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Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals

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Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals

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Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals book

Edited BySabrina D. MisirHiralall, Christopher L. Fici, Gerald S. Vigna
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
eBook Published 18 June 2018
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351139120
Pages 222
eBook ISBN 9781351139120
Subjects Humanities, Social Sciences
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MisirHiralall, S.D., Fici, C.L., & Vigna, G.S. (Eds.). (2018). Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351139120

ABSTRACT

The prominence of religion in recent debates around politics, identity formation, and international terrorism has led to an increased demand on those studying religion to help clarify and contextualise religious belief and practice in the public sphere. While many texts focus on the theoretical development of the subject, this book outlines a wider application of these studies by exploring the role of religious studies scholars and theologians as public intellectuals.

This collection of essays first seeks to define exactly what makes an intellectual "public". It then goes on to deal with a few questions of concern: How do public intellectuals construct knowledge in religious and theological scholarship? What is the link between public intellectuals of higher education and their role in society? Do higher education institutions have a responsibility to endorse public intellectualism?

Looking at the individual and collective role of religious studies scholars and theologians in public life, this book will be of great interest to all scholars and academics involved in religious studies and theology across the academy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|3 pages

Introduction

BySabrina D. MisirHiralall

part I|27 pages

Our role as public intellectuals

chapter 2|5 pages

Presidential address

The future of religious and theological studies: what is our responsibility as public intellectuals?
BySabrina D. MisirHiralall

chapter 3|14 pages

Claiming our voice

Religious studies and public scholarship
ByMichael D. Waggoner

chapter 4|6 pages

A scholar’s lament

Public acts of grief in a nation of religious minorities
ByNathan C. Walker

part II|42 pages

Public intellectual theology for the common good in the post-truth era

chapter 5|10 pages

Tragedy and resistance

Religious and theological studies for the common good
ByJoel C. Daniels

chapter 6|15 pages

Chess boards and boxing gloves

Public theology, aesthetics, and post-truth politics
ByL. Callid Keefe-Perry

chapter 7|15 pages

Theological inquiry and leadership in a “post-truth” era

Insights from blessed Oscar Romero
ByMarc DelMonico

part III|57 pages

Pedagogy and praxis of the public intellectual

chapter 8|14 pages

Decolonizing the classroom

Experimental strategies for decolonial pedagogy and praxis
ByGabriel C. Crooks

chapter 9|18 pages

The responsibility and limits of military chaplains as public theologians

ByAdam Tietje

chapter 10|11 pages

Religion and leadership

Taking some cues from Focolare’s “inundations”
ByMarian Maskulak

chapter 11|12 pages

The faithful frame

Interfaith conversation and the role of the public intellectual
ByJane Huber, Rabbi Seth Wax

part IV|67 pages

Public intellectualism across the borderlines of religion and history

chapter 12|13 pages

Welcoming Syrian refugees in Turkey

The role of religious discourse in the case of Diyanet
ByAyşenur Sönmez Kara

chapter 13|15 pages

The philosophy of Islamic Sufism in public and private piety

ByWalead Mosaad

chapter 14|15 pages

Public intellectuals at the dawn of the Anthropocene Age

Can we reMember?
BySara Jolena Wolcott

chapter 15|15 pages

Theological anthropology

Christianity’s metaphysic of oppression
ByRoberto E. Alejandro

chapter 16|7 pages

Conclusion

Scholars of religion and the duty to speak and act
ByChristopher L. Fici, Gerald S. Vigna
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