Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion de Lauren Horn Griffin(Equinox Publishing) (en Inglés)
Reseña del libro "Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion de Lauren Horn Griffin(Equinox Publishing) (en Inglés)"
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020s have been consistently framed as a time of crisis. Rather than take this at face value, asking how religious people may handle a crisis or what religion can offer people who feel they are in crisis, this volume asks what happens when we classify something as a crisis, and what is at stake in linking these "crises" to "religion." Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion highlights how these terms and categories, though seemingly self-evident, serve particular social and political ends.After exploring the deployment of crisis rhetoric in various aspects of higher education, this volume structures the critical approach to the category of crisis through four distinct sections: Language, Lexicon, Locus, and Locution. Language examines the various rhetorical and theoretical frameworks for "crisis." Lexicon considers the question of method in the study of religion, interrogating the ways in which perceived crises mark shifts in how we do our work. Locus takes up the concept of data for religion and crisis, analyzing examples of how the construction of "crisis" can force moments of decision, adaptation, and reaction. Examples compare instances from North America, Brazil, Mexico, and Russia. Locution brings together senior scholars to assess recent approaches to "the role of religion in crisis" and offers alternatives to that framework in the field of religious studies. The volume concludes with an afterword reflecting on how scholars themselves theorize (or choose not to theorize) crises in regard to their own lives.Focusing on discourses of crisis during a time that is constantly mediated as "in crisis," Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion shows us ways of doing religious studies that are up to the challenge of reflecting on the problems, strategies, and political structures through which we construct our social worlds.
