After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies

by David G. Robertson (Series Editor), Christopher Cotter

The World Religions Paradigm has been the subject of critique and controversy in Religious Studies for many years. After World Religions provides a rationale for overhauling the World Religions curriculum, as well as a roadmap for doing so. The volume offers concise and practical introductions to cutting-edge Religious Studies method and theory, introducing a wide range of pedagogical situations and innovative solutions. An international team of scholars addresses the challenges presented in their different departmental, institutional, and geographical contexts. Instructors developing syllabi will find supplementary reading lists and specific suggestions to help guide their teaching. Students at all levels will find the book an invaluable entry point into an area of ongoing scholarly debate.

222 pages, Paperback

First published March 2, 2016

Reviews

[Elizabeth]

It's difficult to give this collection a rating because on one hand, it's a useful volume for those somewhat fresh to the critiques of the WRP and inspiration for new pedagogies. But on the other, and minding my own needs as a reader, I wish it were more focused on transforming specifically survey level "world religions" courses since they are such a pervasive debate. For this, I found chapters 3 and 4 to be the most useful while the others were interesting reads as a scholar.

[Corey Wozniak]

Read introduction (“The World Religions Paradigm in contemporary Religious Studies”) for as part of coursework for “Religious Worlds of New York: Teaching the Everyday Life of American Religious Diversity” @ Union Theological Seminary, Summer ‘22