Chapter 1: Snakepits & sandpits
Russell Sandberg
Category:
Handbook Chapter
Published:
07 Nov 2019
Page Range:
2–35
Collection:
Law 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784714857.00008
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This introductory chapter explores the development of the area of Law and Religion to date and the drive towards interdisciplinarity. Drawing upon feminist scholarship, it argues that academic fields do not necessarily evolve organically and normatively; rather, their parameters are constructed and authored. An autobiographical reflective and reflexive account of the development of law and religion studies is therefore given, exploring the risks (or snakepits) and appeal (sandpits) of interdisciplinary work. The chapter concludes with the author’s introduction to the chapters that follow.
Cover Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion
Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion
Edited by
Russell Sandberg
,
Norman Doe
,
Bronach Kane
, and
Caroline Roberts
Handbook
Published:
07 Nov 2019
Print ISBN:
9781784714840
eISBN:
9781784714857
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784714857
Pages:
c 464pp
Collection:
Law 2019
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