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All Religion Is Inter-Religion analyses the ways inter-religious relations have contributed both historically and philosophically to the constructions of the category of “religion” as a distinct subject of study. Regarded as contemporary classics, Steven M. Wasserstrom's Religion after Religion (1999) and Between Muslim and Jew (1995) provided a theoretical reorientation for the study of religion away from hierophanies and ultimacy, and toward lived history and deep pluralism. This book distills and systematizes this reorientation into nine theses on the study of religion. Drawing on these theses--and Wasserstrom’s opus more generally--a distinguished group of his colleagues and former students demonstrate that religions can, and must, be understood through encounters in real time and space, through the complex relations they create and maintain between people, and between people and their pasts. The book also features an afterword by Wasserstrom himself, which poses nine riddles to students of religion based on his personal experiences working on religion at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Author:   Kambiz GhaneaBassiri (Carlton College, USA) ,  Paul Robertson (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350236851

ISBN 10:   1350236853
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   29 July 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Introducing Wasserstrom’s Work on Religion, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri (Reed College, USA) 2. Nine Theses on the Study of Religion, Steven M. Wasserstrom (Reed College, USA) Part One: Conversing 3. Anxiety, Lament, and the Language of Silence: Poetic Redemption and Gnostic Alienation, Elliot R. Wolfson (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 4. The Study of Religion in a Postmetaphysical Age: Philosophical and Political Reflections, Peter E. Gordon (Harvard University, USA) 5. Taxonomy Is Epistemology: Theorizing Religion and Hermeticism Polythetically with Wasserstrom’s Theses, Paul Robertson (University of New Hampshire, USA) 6. Metrosophy: Rereading Walter Benjamin in Light of Religion after Religion, Jeremy F. Walton (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany) 7. ‘La Perversión de la Cábala Judía’: Gershom Scholem and anti-Kabbalistic Polemic in the Argentine Catholic Nationalism of Julio Meinvielle, Jeremy P. Brown (McGill University, Canada) Part Two: Mediating 8. Before Religion? The Zoroastrian Concept of Daena and Two Myths about It, Bruce Lincoln (University of Chicago Divinity School, USA) 9. Nag Hammadi at Eranos: Rediscovering Gnosticism among the Historians of Religions, J. Gregory Given (Harvard University, USA) 10. Where the Center of the Rupture Is Called Judaism: Maurice Blanchot and Religion after Religion, Kirsten Collins (University of Chicago, USA) 11. Abrahamic Encounters in the Weimar Wüste, Ruchama Johnston-Bloom (CAPA, The Global Education Network, UK) 12. Far Too Close: Religion and Reality in the Work of Erich Auerbach and Muhammad Asad, Sam Kigar (University of Puget Sound, USA) Part Three: Rethinking 13. Is Sethian Gnosticism an Abrahamic Religion? Abraham, Sodom, and the Parabiblical in Ancient Gnostic Literature, Dylan M. Burns (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 14. The Repentant Magician: “Esoteric Intimacies” and the Enchantment of Religious Difference, Noah Salomon (Carleton College, USA) 15. On the Possibility of Jewish Politics in Our Time: Scholem, Exile, and Early Modern Transformations, Anne Oravetz Albert (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 16. Medieval Spanish Jews and the Dangers of Wealth, Andrew Berns (University of South Carolina, USA) 17. Luksus and the Hasidic Critique of Postwar American Capitalism, Michael Casper (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Epilogue: Nine Riddles, Steven M. Wasserstrom (Reed College, USA) Notes Publications of Steven M. Wasserstrom Bibliography Index

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Whether you are a sceptic or a believer, or both, you will find new trajectories of religion charted in this capacious book. A major, unparalleled achievement. * Bruce B. Lawrence, Professor of Islamic Studies Emeritus, Duke University, USA * This remarkable collection serves as a fitting and inspiring tribute to the lifelong work of Steven M. Wasserstrom as scholar and a teacher. * R. Michael Feener, Sultan of Oman Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford, UK * Steven M. Wasserstrom’s masterful interventions in numerous subfields within the academic study of religion are well known. The essays collected in this volume show clearly just what an important thinker he is and, just as importantly, the influence he has had on students and colleagues. * Aaron W. Hughes, Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Rochester, USA * An intergenerational seminar that demonstrates the cogency and relevance of its provocative conceptualization of religious studies as an academic discipline while testifying to the value of the liberal arts college model of undergraduate education. * Arthur McCalla, Professor of Religious Studies and History, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada * Steven M. Wasserstrom sets the standard for a humane and humanistic study of religion. In his teaching, his scholarship, and his person, he describes a brilliant and perceptive practice of religious studies that is not yet fully realized, but could be. * Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, History, and Divinity, Yale University, USA *

Whether you are a sceptic or a believer, or both, you will find new trajectories of religion charted in this capacious book. A major, unparalleled achievement. * Bruce B. Lawrence, Professor of Islamic Studies Emeritus, Duke University, USA * This remarkable collection serves as a fitting and inspiring tribute to the lifelong work of Steven M. Wasserstrom as scholar and a teacher. * R. Michael Feener, Sultan of Oman Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford, UK * Steven M. Wasserstrom's masterful interventions in numerous subfields within the academic study of religion are well known. The essays collected in this volume show clearly just what an important thinker he is and, just as importantly, the influence he has had on students and colleagues. * Aaron W. Hughes, Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Rochester, USA * An intergenerational seminar that demonstrates the cogency and relevance of its provocative conceptualization of religious studies as an academic discipline while testifying to the value of the liberal arts college model of undergraduate education. * Arthur McCalla, Professor of Religious Studies and History, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada * Steven M. Wasserstrom sets the standard for a humane and humanistic study of religion. In his teaching, his scholarship, and his person, he describes a brilliant and perceptive practice of religious studies that is not yet fully realized, but could be. * Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, History, and Divinity, Yale University, USA *

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Kambiz GhaneaBassiri is Professor of Religion at Carleton College, USA. Paul Robertson is Lecturer in Classics, Humanities, and Italian Studies at the University of New Hampshire, USA.

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