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Method as Identity considers how social identity shapes methodological standpoints. With a refreshing hip hop sensibility, Miller and Driscoll reorient the contemporary academic study of religion toward recognition of the costs and benefits of manufacturing "critical" distance from our objects of study.
List of contents
Introduction: Manufacturing Distance in the Study of Religion
1.Method as Identity: The Battle for Identity in the North American Academic Study of Religion
2.Ghost Stories: How Method Reveals Identity in the Study of Religions
3.Long Division: How Identity Reveals Method in the History of Religions
4.What Is "Black" about "Black" Religious Studies?: Distinction and Diaspora in the Maintenance of a Field
5.What Identity Is Your Method?: Tracing Co-Constitution in the Twilight of (White) Normativity
6.Categorical Miscegenation: Strange Bitter Fruit and Uncertain Branches in the Field
7.N-Words and M-Words: Switching Codes, Shifting Realities, and Trading Metaphors of Authority
Conclusion: Ghostbusters & Paranoiacs
About the author
Christopher M. Driscoll is assistant professor of religion studies, American studies, and Africana studies at Lehigh University.Monica R. Miller is associate professor of religion studies and Africana studies and director of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Lehigh University.
Summary
Method as Identity considers how social identity shapes methodological standpoints. With a refreshing hip hop sensibility, Miller and Driscoll reorient the contemporary academic study of religion toward recognition of the costs and benefits of manufacturing “critical” distance from our objects of study.
