Why Study Religion? Visio PivotDiagrams As the world comes to

As the world comes to grips with what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century

and Margaret Oliphant

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Why Study Religion? Visio PivotDiagrams As the world comes toCan the study of religion be justified? Scholarship in religion, especially work in "theory and method," is preoccupied with matters of research procedure and thus inarticulate about the goals that motivate scholarship in the field. For that reason, the field suffers from a crisis of rationale. Richard B. Miller identifies six prevailing methodologies in the field, and then offers an alternative framework for thinking about the purposes of the