Our Primary Expertise: A Future for the Study of Religion

Our Primary Expertise: A Future for the Study of Religion brings the author full circle—from his first book in 1997, on how claims that religion was unique were used to establish the North America field to his present argument that its future is instead based on the degree to which its findings can be applied in a wide assortment of areas, both inside and outside of academia. Its previously uncollected essays, all with new introductions that frame this timely argument, make plain that longs...