ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book has sought to understand more fully what is meant when a religious studies scholar describes our study as “interdisciplinary.” Interdisciplinarity has here been named as a style of performing methodology whose trajectory is towards the establishment of a space in-between the university-generated disciplinary structures, a new location for the production of knowledge. Fundamental to interdisciplinarity is the construction of a deep, comprehensive self-consciousness regarding location. For the religious studies scholar this requires a unique understanding of personal location in relationship to professional location. Philosophy was performed in service to Christian theology, the era's scholasticism, and science developed as a means to analyze the natural world as an of embodiment divine purpose. The organizing principles of the university began to change as Christianity itself changed during the Reformation through the Enlightenment.