Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. For Such a Time As This (Remus) -- 2. Why a Council on the Study of Religion (Welch) -- 3. Ironies (Wilson) -- 4. Religious Studies (Neusner) -- 5. Impressions from Wingspread (Capps) -- 6. History of Religions (Smart) -- 7. The Future of Religious Studies (Raschke) -- 8. Naming the Game (Vernoff) -- 9. Neutrality in the Study of Religion (Whittaker) -- 10. Assessing Social-scientific Theories of Religion (Segal) -- 11. Playing Hardball in Religious Studies (Sharma) -- 12. The Academic Study of Religion (Sharma) -- 13. Fending off the Social Sciences (Segal) -- 14. Confessions of a Former Establishment Fundamentalist (Bellah) -- 15. Confessing Away the Soul With the Sins (Dittes) -- 16. Criteria for Organizing the Introductory Course in Religion (Livingston) -- 17. Teaching About Religion at the State University (Minor & Baird) -- 18. Teaching About Religion...: A Reply (Mitchell & Annis) -- 19. Teaching About Religion at the Religiously Affiliated University (Riley) -- 20. For the Advancement of My Career (Christ & Goldenberg) -- 21 Women's Studies in Religion (Christ) -- 22. The Debut of the Bible as a Pagan Classic (Miles) -- 23. Bible and Religion (Smith) -- 24. Contemporary Socio-political Change and the Work of Religious Studies (Capps) -- 25. The Scholar of Religion As a Cultural Critic (Jensen) -- 26. What Are the Humanities and Why Do They Matter? (Lease) -- 27. Response to Gary Lease's ... (Hunt) -- 28. So, What Are We Professing Here? (Williams) -- 29. Response to Raymond B. Williams's ... (Hartel) -- 30. Response to Raymond B. Williams's ... (Stephens) -- 31. Response to Raymond B. Williams's ... (Clingerman) -- 32. Rejoinder (Williams) -- 33. Late Capitalism Arrives on Campus (McCutcheon) -- 34. Religious Studies and Identity Politics (Juschka).

24. Toward an Engaged Religious Studies (Malley) -- 36. The Study of Religion Under Late Capitalism (Benavides) -- 37. On the Teaching of Islam in America (Martin) -- 38. Reflections on Teaching About September 11 (Prentiss) -- 39. Death and Memory at Ground Zero (Johnson) -- 40. September 11, 2001 and Islam (Kassam) -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.