Towards a Metamodern Academic Study of Religion

What is it about?

In Religious Studies we never entirely discard a methodology. We can still write exegeses that would have been recognizable to F Max Müller. We can use survey methods borrowed from the social sciences, analyze religious performances using the playful postmodern irony, and so on. To this methodological smorgasbord we may now be able to add metamodernism. This article will introduce metamodernism and ask whether it has something to add to our discipline. And vice versa. I will primarily approach this from a Religious Studies perspective, but there are implications for Theology too.

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Why is it important?

This is regarded as the first peer-reviewed article that connects the concept of metamodernism (in the sense proposed by Vermeulen and Van de Akker) to the academic study of religion.