Rather than simply promoting religious literacy or moral inquiry, the series questions the assumption that theology and religion should be understood either as objects of study or as uniquely authoritative systems. Instead, the series understands theology and religion as related constellations of thought and practice that can inform how we think as well as what we think about. Skeptical of the modern political and intellectual division of labor between the religious and the secular, Religion and the Human considers religion where it is implicit as well as explicit and seeks to reshape the national conversation around religion’s relevance to questions of being human. By making the human a central question, theology and religion, together with other like-minded fields, cultivate the capacity to ask unanswerable questions and to pursue the answers nevertheless, within contexts attuned to the myriad forms and effects of power, authority, and sociality.
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and Lisa Sideris, Editors
View the Religion & the Human book series on the IU Press website.