Remembering J. Z. Smith - A Career and its Consequence - Emily D. Crews
26. Academic Freedom and Academic Responsibility
Remembering J. Z. Smith - A Career and its Consequence - Emily D. Crews
J. Z. Smith [+]
Jonathan Z. Smith, who passed away in late 2017, was retired from a long teaching career at the University Chicago. Known for his careful attention to the methods scholars use when studying religion, Smith worked with a wide variety of ancient and contemporary textual and ethnographic examples, becoming one of the most influential scholars of religion in the last fifty years.
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This chapter was originally a brief response presented by Smith on November 22, 2004, at the San Antonio annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, as part of a panel entitled “Academic Freedom and Academic Responsibility in the Study of Religion.”