Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 For such a time as this: the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion, 1969–2009
- Part I Inventing and reinventing the field of religious studies
- Part II Method and theory in religious studies
- Part III Teaching religion
- Part IV Women and the bible in religious studies
- Part V Religion and religious studies in civic life
- Part VI Religious studies and identity politics
- 33 Late capitalism arrives on campus: making and remaking the study of religion
- 34 Religious studies and identity politics: mythology in the making
- 35 Toward an engaged religious studies
- 36 The study of religion under late capitalism, or commodity triumphant
- Part VII Islam and 9/11
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
33 - Late capitalism arrives on campus: making and remaking the study of religion
from Part VI - Religious studies and identity politics
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 For such a time as this: the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion, 1969–2009
- Part I Inventing and reinventing the field of religious studies
- Part II Method and theory in religious studies
- Part III Teaching religion
- Part IV Women and the bible in religious studies
- Part V Religion and religious studies in civic life
- Part VI Religious studies and identity politics
- 33 Late capitalism arrives on campus: making and remaking the study of religion
- 34 Religious studies and identity politics: mythology in the making
- 35 Toward an engaged religious studies
- 36 The study of religion under late capitalism, or commodity triumphant
- Part VII Islam and 9/11
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Summary
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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- Reinventing Religious StudiesKey Writings in the History of a Discipline, pp. 199 - 209Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2013