The Proper Study of Religion: After Jonathan Z. Smith

by Sam D Gill and Sam D. Gill

Book Overview

The first generation of the proper academic study of religion might be said to span the half century from 1963 to 2013. Supreme Court Justice Clark's 1963 opinion clarifying that any liberal "education is not complete without a study of comparative religion or the history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of civilization" allowed the legal teaching of religion in secular universities. The end of the first generation might be marked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197527221
• ISBN13: 9780197527221
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"