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Series:   Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity

Theory, History, and the Study of Religion in Late Antiquity

Speculative Worlds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2023

Maia Kotrosits
Maia Kotrosits
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo, Ontario

Summary

Theory is not a set of texts, it is a style of approach. It is to engage in the act of speculation: gestures of abstraction that re-imagine and dramatize the crises of living. This Element is a both a primer for understanding some of the more predominant strands of critical theory in the study of religion in late antiquity, and a history of speculative leaps in the field. It is a history of dilemmas that the field has tried to work out again and again - questions about subjectivity, the body, agency, violence, and power. This Element additionally presses us on the ethical stakes of our uses of theory, and asks how the field's interests in theory help us understand what's going on, half-spoken, in the disciplinary unconscious.
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Series: Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity
Online ISBN: 9781009025560
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 09 February 2023

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