Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I From Theology to Religious Studies: On the Emergence of a New Science

Explaining Religion: The Intellectual Ethos

Religion and the Scientific Impulse in the Nineteenth Century: Friedrich Max Muller and the Birth of the Science of Religion

Toward the Founding of a Science of Religion: The Contribution of C. P. Tiele

Part II A Return to Theology: On the Resistance to Scientific Method

A ``New Era of promise'' for Religious Studies?

Theology and the Academic Study of Religion in Protestant America

Promise and Disappointment: Recent Developments in the Academic Study of Religion in the United States

Religious Studies as a Saving Grace? From Goodenough to South Africa

The Failure of Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion

The ``Academic Naturalization'' of Religious Studies: Intent or Pretense?

Part III Case Studies in the Failure of Nerve

Phenomenology of Religion as Religio-Cultural Quest: Gerardus van der Leeuw and the Subversion of the Scientific Study of Religion

On the Value of the World's Parliament of Religions for the Study of Religion

The Study of Religion: On the New Encyclopedia of Religion

Alive, But Just Barely: Graduate Studies in Religion at the University of Toronto

Against Science in the Academic Study of Religion: On the Emergence and Development of the AAR

A Religious Agenda Continued: A Review of the Presidential Addresses of the AAR

Part IV Epilogue

Appropriating Religion: Understanding Religion as an Object of Science

References

Index