Why Study Religion?

by Richard B Miller and Richard B. Miller

Can the study of religion be justified? Scholarship in religion, especially work in "theory and method," is preoccupied with matters of research procedure and thus inarticulate about the goals that motivate scholarship in the field. For that reason, the field suffers from a crisis of rationale. Richard B. Miller identifies six prevailing methodologies in the field, and then offers an alternative framework for thinking about the purposes of the discipline...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197566812
• ISBN13: 9780197566817
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"