Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion: Essays in Honor of Donald Wiebe

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Dedication
The Nerve of Donald Wiebe
The Failure of Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion
General Failures
	Catching Up with Marx: Truth, Myth, and the Niceties of “Belief”
	Fixed Geomorphologies and the Shifting Sands of Time
	A Critical History of Religion as a Psychological Phenomenon
	Everything Old Is New Again
	Revisiting the Confessional: Donald Wiebe’s “Small ‘c’ Confessional,” Its Historical Entailments and Linguistic Entanglements
Special Failures
	Failures (of Nerve?) in the Study of Islamic Origins
	The Failure of Islamic Studies Post-9/11: A Contextualization and Analysis
	Religious Studies that Really Schmecks: Introducing Food to the Academic Study of Religion
	Cultural Anthropology and Corinthian Food Fights: Structure and History in the Lord's Dinner
	The Identity of Q in the First Century: Reproducing a Theological Narrative
	The Failure of Nerve to Recognize Violence in Early Christianity: The Case of the Parable of the Assassin
	Redescribing Iconoclasm: Holey Frescoes and Identity Formation
In Lieu of Conclusion
	The Irony of Religion
Index of Authors