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Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada (2020)
Aaron W. Hughes responds to his critics: …all our narratives, terms, categories, and frames of reference emerge from the shadows, and we would do well to illumine them. Only by understanding these narratives and frames of reference—their genealogies, their investment … Continue reading
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Science Envy in Theories of Religion
Aaron W. Hughes published in 2010: In the recently published Contemporary Theories of Religion (Stausberg; 2009, hereafter CTR), at least 9 of the 15 chapters are devoted to theories that interpret and/or explain religion from perspectives that can loosely be … Continue reading
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The Invention of Jewish Identity: Bible, Philosophy, and the Art of Translation
Aaron W. Hughes writes in 2010: * …I cannot agree with them that the Hebrew Bible preserves some transcendent power. I thus read Buber and Rosenzweig as I read everyone in this book: against the grain. * The mythology engulfing … Continue reading
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From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada
Aaron W. Hughes writes in this 2020 book: * The academic study of religion, for all intents and purposes, began in Germany in the nineteenth century. Its goal was, as indeed it still is, to understand the religions of the … Continue reading
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Jewish Philosophy and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Aaron W. Hughes writes in 2014: * Having grown up non-Jewishly in a home completely devoid of Judaism, let alone any religion, my path to the tradition, both intellectual and spiritual, for all intents and purposes only began in graduate … Continue reading
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