![]() ![]() ![]() This article explores the embodied process of being anorexic and the moral repertoires within which this process is entangled. We will trace their implications for the academic study of religions and for the wider ‘politics of location’ within the western academy, asking whether there is a future for the study of religions and if so, what its task might be. This third-year undergraduate course provides a survey of these criticisms alongside an advanced overview of three main bodies of critical theory (poststructuralist, postcolonial, and gender theory with attention also paid to disabilities and queer studies), plotting the intersections and points of departure between them. ![]() However, contemporary critical theories have problematised these approaches, suggesting that in spite of claims within the Study of Religions to apparent neutrality or empathy, unreflexive scholarly methods and assumptions continue to universalise the category of ‘religion’ and play a significant role in producing and maintaining western imperialist knowledge formations within the field. Course Description: Historically, the study of religions has tried to provide a means of sympathetically exploring and understanding the diverse cultures, beliefs and practices of the world using a variety of methodological approaches and orientations. ![]()
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