Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. The Study of Religion as an Anthropology of Credibility 13
6. Why “Theology”Won’t Work 31
7. Our Subject “Over There”? Scrutinizing the Distance Between Religion and Its Study 45
8. Other People’s Theologies: The New Hubris of History of Religions 65
9. Embodied Theology 81
10. From Theology to theology: The Place of “God-Talk” in Religious Studies 93
11. Territorial Disputes: Religious Studies and Theology in Transition 110
12. Academic Theology in the University or Why an Ex-Queen’s Heir Should Be Made a Subject 126
13. Rethinking Theology and Religious Studies 140
14. Religious Studies and the Alienation of Theology 155
15. The Place of Academic Theology in the Study of Religion from the Perspective of Liberal Education 172
16. The Epistemic Publicity of Academic Black Theology 187
17. Theology and Cultural Contest in the University 199
18. Bibliography 213
19. Contributors 225
20. Index 229