Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion

Preface Donald Wiebe: An Appreciation Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont The Failure of Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion Donald Wiebe, Trinity College, University of Toronto General Failures Catching Up with Marx: Truth, Myth, and the Niceties of "Belief" Matthew Day, Florida State University Fixed Geomorphologies and the Shifting Sands of Time Darlene Juschka, University of Regina A Critical History of Religion as a Psychological Phenomenon Janet Klippenstein, University of Alberta Everything Old is New Again Russell T. McCutcheon Revisiting the Confessional: Donald Wiebe's "Small 'c' Confessional," Its Historical Entailments and Linguistic Entanglements Johannes C. Wolfart, Carleton University Special Failures Failures (of Nerve?) in the Study of Islamic Origins Herbert Berg, University of North Carolina at Wilmington The Failure of Islamic Studies Post-9/11: A Contextualization and Analysis Aaron W. Hughes, State University of New York at Buffalo Religious Studies that Really Schmecks: Introducing Food to the Academic Study of Religion Michel Desjardins, Wilfrid Laurier University Cultural Anthropology and Corinthian Food Fights: Structure and History in the Lord's Dinner John W. Parrish, Brown University The Identity of Q in the First Century: Reproducing a Theological Narrative Sarah E. Rollens, University of Toronto The Failure of Nerve to Recognize Violence in Early Christianity: The Case of the Parable of the Assassin Thomas Nicholas Schonhoffer, University of Toronto Redescribing Iconoclasm: Holey Frescoes and Identity Formation Vaia Touna, University of Alberta In Lieu of Conclusion The Irony of Religion William Arnal and Willi Braun