In the mail: Who Owns Religion? Scholars and their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century

Laurie L. Patton’s Who Owns Religion? Scholars and their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century

Laurie L. Patton on “a new scholarly imagination”:

“In his book We Scholars, David Damrosch argues for a new dynamism between the scholar and society, in which the relevance of knowledge production is assumed by multiple publics and advocated for in a comprehensive way by the scholar. Such a new scholarly imagination might look something like the partnerships of fools and protagonists — one where the rel...