What Game Are We Playing?:

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" What Game Are We Playing?: "
Indrek Peedu

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1079247
Doc. No	:	LA122876
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341488‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Indrek Peedu
Title & Author	:	What Game Are We Playing?: [Article] : A New Look at the Identity and Beginning of the Study of Religion\ Indrek Peedu
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Numen
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	65/1
Page No	:	88–108
Abstract	:	This article aims to analyze how scholars of religions have studied the history of the discipline itself, with particular emphasis on the question of its beginning. Although situating the beginning of the discipline in the late 19th century is prevalent, there are dissenting voices in this debate. Interestingly, a similar discussion exists in the history of science. There, Andrew Cunningham has argued in favor of understanding scientific practice as a human activity and thus writing histories of science as histories of an activity. The latter part of this article explains how implementing Cunningham’s approach can be useful for the study of the history of religious studies, making it possible to study the intellectual and institutional aspects as parts of one whole. I will draw attention to how this approach can help us analyze the question of the beginnings of the discipline. This article aims to analyze how scholars of religions have studied the history of the discipline itself, with particular emphasis on the question of its beginning. Although situating the beginning of the discipline in the late 19th century is prevalent, there are dissenting voices in this debate. Interestingly, a similar discussion exists in the history of science. There, Andrew Cunningham has argued in favor of understanding scientific practice as a human activity and thus writing histories of science as histories of an activity. The latter part of this article explains how implementing Cunningham’s approach can be useful for the study of the history of religious studies, making it possible to study the intellectual and institutional aspects as parts of one whole. I will draw attention to how this approach can help us analyze the question of the beginnings of the discipline.
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	historiography
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	history of religious studies
Descriptor	:	history of science
Descriptor	:	methodology
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religion in Antiquity
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Study of religion
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341488‬