{"id":1545,"date":"2013-02-25T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/02\/the-politics-of-religion.html"},"modified":"2013-02-25T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T16:02:00","slug":"the-politics-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/02\/the-politics-of-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This past weekend was the 12th<\/sup>\u00a0annual\u00a0Florida State University<\/a>\u00a0Graduate Student Symposium<\/a>\u00a0(#fsugss on Twitter<\/a>).\u00a0Dr. Aaron Hughes<\/a>\u00a0from the University of Rochester was this year\u2019s keynote speaker, and this year\u2019s conference theme was the \u201cPolitics of Religion.\u201d There were many great panels that took place over the weekend, and the presented papers covered all sorts of topics in the field. I\u2019ll focus my reflections here on discussions of theory issues in our field; so, if theory isn\u2019t your bag, this post may not be for you. However, as Dr. Hughes told us Friday evening, it doesn\u2019t matter what tradition or area you focus in, if you study religion, you should be aware of the debates in theory and method.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Professor Hughes\u2019s keynote address was entitled \u201cThe Politics of Theory and Method.\u201d In it, he explained how the study of religion, discussions of\u00a0 theory, and various scholarly methodologies are political. It was a great keynote and could be a looooong blog post in and of itself, so I\u2019ll focus on just a few things. The embedded politics in theories of religion and theoretical approaches to the study of religion was one thread of his keynote that struck a chord with me. In 1903, the Association of Biblical Instructors in American Colleges and Secondary Schools was founded, an organization that changed its name to National Association of Biblical Instructors (NABI) in 1922. Most, if not all, members of NABI were not only Bible instructors, but also Protestants committed to the text\u2019s theological value and saw sharing that value as part of their task. In brief, religion could be celebrated in the classroom. This is the organization that would become the\u00a0American Academy of Religion<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n


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