Craft of Religious Studies

Jon R. Stone currently teaches at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of On the Boundaries of American Evangelicalism (SMP).

• Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; J.R.Stone - Methods in My Life; N.Smar t - From Great Neck to Swift Hall: Confessions of a Reluctant Historian of Religions; W.Doniger - There is No Religion There; F.Staal - Climbing the Foothills of Understanding; J.Hick - From History to Religion; J.Neusner - Theological Autobiography; J.M.Robinson - Half a Life in Religious Studies: Confessions of an 'Historical Historian'; M.E.Marty - On Theory-Driven Methods; R.Stark - On Studying Religion; A.M.Greeley - Of Churches, Courts, and Moral Order; P.E.Hammond - Religion as Life and Text: Postmodern Re-figurations; E.Wyschogrod - Retracings; M.C.Taylor - Who Are You Really, And What Were You Before? Reflections on a Thinking Life; G.Gunn - The Rest is History; I.Strenski - Index