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from Part VI - Religious studies and identity politics
On the bad days, I wonder why I'm committing six to eight years to this … Why am I postponing having a family, financial security, geographic flexibility, and relationships for something that seems so uncertain?
(University of Chicago Divinity School graduate student, quoted by Spiegler 1997: 43)What follows are two of the papers from the jointly sponsored North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR)/Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) panels held at the SSSR's annual meeting in November 1996, in Nashville, Tennessee. In alphabetical order, the panel participants were: Gustavo Benavides (Department of Religious Studies, Villanova University); Warren Frisina (Associate Executive Director of the American Academy of Religion); Darlene Juschka (Ph.D. candidate. University of Toronto, and co-editor of NAASR's periodical, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion); Brian Malley (Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan); and Charles Reynolds (past President of the CSSR and Head of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee).
As organizer and moderator for the panel, I should explain its impetus: the title and topic of the panel explicitly arose from an article written by the literary critic Cary Nelson entitled, “Lessons from the Job Wars: Late Capitalism Arrives on Campus” (1995a). When I first read Nelson's article in the autumn of 1995, 1 was holding my third yearly contract position as a full-time instructor in a Religious Studies department.
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