Remembering J. Z. Smith - A Career and its Consequence - Emily D. Crews

Remembering J. Z. Smith - A Career and its Consequence - Emily D. Crews

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Remembering J. Z. Smith - A Career and its Consequence - Emily D. Crews

Emily D. Crews [+-]
University of Chicago
Emily D. Crews is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, where she teaches in the Religious Studies Department and the College. She completed her PhD in History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2021. Her work focuses on the ways that women’s reproductive bodies are linked to projects of identity construction, maintenance, and negotiation in Nigerian Pentecostal immigrant communities in the United States. In the classroom she thinks with students about categories and ideas in the study of religion through mundane phenomena like love, sororities, Jane Austen, and Alabama football (Roll Tide).
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).

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Constituting an archive of remembrances of the person and the contributions of the late Jonathan Z. Smith (1938-2017), section one this volume collects previously unpublished papers from three separate scholarly panels from the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the North American Association for the Study of Religion in which a wide variety of scholars reflect on the impact Smith had on their own careers and the field at large. Section two includes revised versions of blog posts, many of which appeared shortly after news of Smith’s death, in which scholars, journalists, and onetime students of Smith offer a more intimate and personal look at his legacy. The volume closes with the extended transcripts of seven interviews about Smith carried out with those who either trained or worked with him followed by a brief, previously unpublished essay by Smith himself. Taken together, the volume documents the role Smith’s work has played in the modern field while providing a basis for further considering the future direction of the field.

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Crews, Emily; McCutcheon, Russell. Index. Remembering J. Z. Smith - A Career and its Consequence. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 227-238 Nov 2020. ISBN 9781781799697. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=42130. Date accessed: 31 Mar 2025 doi: 10.1558/equinox.42130. Nov 2020

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