Failure and nerve in the academic study of religion :
[Book]
essays in honor of Donald Wiebe /
edited by William E. Arnal, Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon.
Bristol, CT :
Equinox,
2012.
ix, 243 pages ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
General Failures: Catching Up with Marx: Truth, Myth, and the Niceties of "Belief" / Matthew Day -- Fixed Geomorphologies and the Shifting Sands of Time / Darlene M. Juschka -- A Critical History of Religion as a Psychological Phenomenon / Janet Klippenstein -- Everything Old Is New Again / Russell T. McCutcheon -- Revisiting the Confessional: Donald Wiebe's "Small 'c' Confessional," Its Historical Entailments and Linguistic Entanglements / Johannes C. Wolfart.
Special Failures: Failures (of Nerve?) in the Study of Islamic Origins / Herbert Berg -- The Failure of Islamic Studies Post 9/11: A Contextualization and Analysis / Aaron W. Hughes -- Religious Studies that Really Schmecks: Introducing Food to the Academic Study of Religion / Michel Desjardins -- Cultural Anthropology and Corinthian Food Fights: Structure and History in the Lord's Dinner / John W. Parrish -- The Identity of Q in the First Century: Reproducing a Theological Narrative / Sarah E. Rollens -- The Failure of Nerve to Recognize Violence in Early Christianity: The Case of the Parable of the Assassin / T. Nicholas Schonhoffer -- Redescribing Iconoclasm: Holey Frescoes and Identity Formation / Vaia Touna -- In Lieu of Conclusion: The Irony of Religion / William Arnal and Willi Braun.