{"product_id":"critical-terms-for-religious-studies-second-edition-9780226839851","title":"Critical Terms for Religious Studies, Second Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new edition of a classic resource--composed of twenty-three essays written specifically for this volume.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e First published nearly thirty years ago, \u003ci\u003eCritical Terms for Religious Studies \u003c\/i\u003eproved a vital resource for an emerging interdisciplinary conversation. We still use much of the same language in the study of religion, but fresh concerns have both changed the meaning of terms and given rise to new terms altogether. This edition consists of twenty-three entirely new essays that offer students and scholars alike the tools to historicize and evaluate the shifting role of familiar and emerging critical terms in religious studies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These are \"critical terms\" both because they are important in our cultural moment and because thinking through them reveals how religions are embedded in and shaped by material, social, economic, and political forces. A shared conviction unites contributors from a range of traditions and methodologies: a recognition that our world is saturated by the persistence of religious traditions as shape-shifting (not static or transcendent) forces of authority, as powerful today as ever before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Hammerschlag\u003c\/b\u003e is the John Nuveen Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her books include \u003ci\u003eDevotion: Three Inquiries in Religion, Literature, and Political Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384141086994,"sku":"9780226839851","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0d7faec0-296d-465b-8956-a3672b9ed3fa.jpg?v=1751126041","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/critical-terms-for-religious-studies-second-edition-9780226839851","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}