Connecting Fitzgerald and Latour for the Sake of Democratic
Religious Studies

J 2019

Connecting Fitzgerald and Latour for the Sake of Democratic Religious Studies

FUJDA, Milan

Basic information

Original name

Connecting Fitzgerald and Latour for the Sake of Democratic Religious Studies

Authors

FUJDA, Milan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Implicit Religion, Sheffield, Equinox, 2019, 1463-9955

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00116183

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/imre.41065

UT WoS

000557825200009

Keywords in English

Timothy Fitzgerald; Bruno Latour; religious studies; religion; symmetrical approach; actor-network-theory

Abstract

V originále

There is a theoretical and methodological toolbox for the postcolonial, i.e. truly democratic, religious studies which is available and ready for use. Through it, the discipline can drop the analytical categories of "religion" and "belief" completely from its vocabulary. Timothy Fitzgerald's criticism of the colonising rhetorical structure of “religion” can thus be carried into its consequences. This was made possible by redesigning a social science methodology within the study of science and technology. Bruno Latour and his colleagues refined it by employing achievements of ethnomethodology and symbolic interactionism. This paper demonstrates how to transplant this symmetrical approach to religious studies. Their distinctiveness won’t be lost if religion remains in the background as a completely vague horizon-idea arranging the range of heterogeneous interests of various scholars in the field together. Its etic (theoretical) use, however, must be strictly prohibited in order to foster the elaboration of precise descriptive language capturing the exact components operating in the ordering processes under scrutiny.

Links

MUNI/A/0858/2019, interní kód MU

Name: Výzkumné trendy v současné religionistice (Acronym: VYTRESOUR)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

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FUJDA, Milan. Connecting Fitzgerald and Latour for the Sake of Democratic Religious Studies. Implicit Religion. Sheffield: Equinox, 2019, vol. 22, 3-4, p. 391-412. ISSN 1463-9955. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1558/imre.41065.

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FUJDA, Milan. Connecting Fitzgerald and Latour for the Sake of Democratic Religious Studies. \textit{Implicit Religion}. Sheffield: Equinox, 2019, vol.~22, 3-4, p.~391-412. ISSN~1463-9955. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1558/imre.41065.

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