RT Review
T1 Forget worldviews: Towards a Deleuzian religious studies
JF Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
VO 23
SP 29
OP 41
A1 Tremlett, Paul-François
LA English
PB British Association for the Study of Religions
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1822248809
AB In this essay I engage in a close analysis of three documents central to the push to place the worldview concept at the front and centre of Religious Studies in schools and universities - the 2018 Commission on Religious Education Report Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward, Worldview: A Multidisciplinary Report (2020) and The Worldview Project: Discussion Papers (2020). I argue that the documents paint a picture of a subject caught between an objectivist account of a fixed field of really existing religions and a postmodern or Deleuzian mélange of lived interactions and flows. I advocate for a Deleuzian transformation of Religious Studies and the embrace of decolonisation and critical religious literacy, based in a vision of the study of religions as the study of relations and assemblages.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.18792/jbasr.v23i0.55