IntroductionTheory in a Time of ExcessAaron W. HughesPART ONE1. Establishing a Beachhead: NAASR, Twenty Years LaterLuther H. Martin, University of Virginia, and Donald Wiebe, University of TorontoPART TWO2. On the Restraint of TheoryJason N. Blum, Davidson College3. It's Hard Out There for a TheoristMichael J. Altman, University of Alabama4. Signifying "Theory": Toward a Method of Mutually Assured DeconstructionRichard Newton, Elizabethtown College5. On the Restraint of ConsciousnessTara Baldrick-Morrone, Florida State University6. A ReplyJason N. BlumPART THREE7. The High Stakes of Identifying (with) One's Object of StudyK. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama8. New Materialism and the Objects of Religious StudiesMartha Smith Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara9. Killing The Scholar: Critical Theory, Relevance, and Objects of StudyThomas J. Whitley, Florida State Univesity10. The Rhetoric of Disinterest for Authorizing our Critical Position: Historicizing Critical-Theory in Religious StudiesStephen L. Young, Brown University11. A Reply K. Merinda SimmonsPART FOUR12. What the Cognitive Science of Religion Is (and is not)Claire White, California State University, Northridge 13. "Show me the Money": Big-Money Donors and the Cognitive Science of ReligionBrad Stoddard, McDaniel Colllege14. Of Elephants and Riders: Cognition, Reason and Will in the Study of ReligionMatt Sheedy, University of Manitoba15. A ReplyClaire WhitePART FIVE16. The Study of Religion, Bricolage, and Brandom Matthew C. Bagger, University of Alabama17. Precision and Excess: Doing the Discipline of Religious StudiesRebekka King, Middle State Tennessee University18. On Druids, The Dude, and Doing Excessive Theory James Dennis Lorusso, Princeton University19. Reliabilism and the Limits of Pragmatism Robyn Faith Walsh, University of Miami20. A Reply Matthew C. BaggerPART SIX21. Theory is the Best Accessory: Branding and the Power of Scholarly CompartmentalizationLeslie Dorrough Smith, University of AlabamaAfterwordFeast and Famine in the Study of ReligionRussell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama
Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester. He is the author 10 books and over 50 articles and book chapters.
"Theory in a Time of Excess is a compelling and stimulating read that effectively conveys the intensity of scholarly reflection, debate, and exchange of ideas presented at the 2015 North American Association for the Study of Religion [NAASR] meeting, from whose proceedings the book was developed." --Massimo Rondolino, Carroll University, Reading Religion
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