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Journal of the American Academy of Religion 2006 74(2):483-494; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj056
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Revised: Comparative Religious Traditions*

Peter Ochs

Peter Ochs, Edgar Bronfman, Professor of Modern Judaic Studies, University of Virginia, Religious Studies, 148 Amphitheater Way, PO Box 400126, Charlottesville VA 22904-4126. Phone: 434 923 4716. E-mail: pwo3v{at}virginia.edu.

Debates about "religious studies vs. theology" may be irresolvable because they are symptoms of a crisis of a different order: the academy’s still-colonialist relation to our civilization(s)’ folk-or-wisdom traditions, "religious" traditions in particular. Scholars of religious studies or theology practice a kind of "colonialism writ-small" when they remove their subject matter from its lived, societal contexts and re-situate it in conceptual worlds of their own devising. If endless debates follow, they concern these worlds we have constructed rather than the religions and theologies that we study.


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