Debating a Discipline, Contesting Identities, and the Future of Islamic Studies

Authors

  • Philip L. Tite University of Washington

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v43i4.1

Keywords:

Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Islam, Loch Ness, Naga, New Atheism, Atheism, Religion, Theory, Buddhism, Scotland, Hinduism, Aaron Hughes, Omid Safi

Abstract

Editor's introduction to the Bulletin for the Study of Religion 43.4 (2014). Presents the panel of articles on the "future of Islamic studies", with a particular focus on the etic/emic debate in not only Islamic studies but religious studies more broadly. Presents the two standalone articles (one on the Loch Ness monster in Scotland re-conceptualized as a "naga" creature; the other a theoretical look at atheism as historic object of study) as well as a conference report in "Field Notes".

Author Biography

  • Philip L. Tite, University of Washington

    Philip L. Tite is the editor of Bulletin for the Study of Religion.

References

Hughes, Aaron. 2012. Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction. Sheffield: Equinox. Reprinted: Routledge, 2014.

_____. 2014. “When Scholarship is Just Bad Scholarship.” Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog: http://www.equinoxpub.com/blog/2014/02/when-bad-scholarship-is-just-bad-scholarship-a-response-to-omid-safi/.

Rippin, Andrew. 2006. “Western Scholarship and the Qur’?n.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’?n, edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe, 235-51. Cambridge University Press.

Safi, Omid, 2014. “Reflections on the State of Islamic Studies.” Jadaliyya blog: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/16269/reflections-on-the-state-of-islamic-studies#.Uuvw6CkjVY4.facebook.

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Published

2014-12-02

Issue

Vol. 43 No. 4 (2014)

Section

The Editorial

How to Cite

Tite, P. (2014). Debating a Discipline, Contesting Identities, and the Future of Islamic Studies. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 43(4), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v43i4.1