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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Courses and Canons in the Study of Religion (With Continual Reference to Jonathan Z. Smith)
Contributor:
Levene, Nancy
imprint:
American Academy of Religion, Oxford University Press, 2012
Published in:
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 80 (2012) 4, Seite 998-1024
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/jaarel/lfs084
ISSN:
1477-4585;
0002-7189
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>It is a commonplace that scholarship and teaching inform one another. Minimally, this means that the materials of research guide the formation of a syllabus. In courses that are introductory, however, teachers are called to reflect on the foundations of their scholarship. In this task, teaching serves to unsettle and provoke research, not only in the decision of what books to teach, but also in the course's argument. I propose that this argument be directed not toward a field in some ideal shape but toward the more elementary concepts of course, canon, and introduction themselves, since teaching an introductory course is perforce to consider the very nature of introduction. The three concepts of introduction, canon, and course are integral to thinking across the arts and sciences, nowhere more so than in the study of religion, where the work of Jonathan Z. Smith has tunneled, if only partially, into their paradoxes.</p>