Naming the Unnameable? Theological Language and the Academic Study of Religion (1990)
Entanglements - Marking Place in the Field of Religion - Russell T. McCutcheon
Russell T. McCutcheon [+ ]
University of Alabama
Russell T. McCutcheon is University Research Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, USA. He publishes widely on the history of the study of religion, the tools scholars use in their work, and the practical implications of that work. Among his recent publications are Reading J. Z. Smith (with Willi Braun; Oxford University Press, 2018), ‘Religion’ in Theory and Practice (Equinox Publishing, 2018) and Fabricating Religion (de Gruyter, 2018).
Description
This essay responds to two articles published in Studies in Religion. In his introduction, the author admits that he no longer recognizes his current self when re-reading the original article.