In its relatively short life, the discipline of religious studies has issued several challenges to theology. The currency of genealogical strategies in the study of religion changes the nature of the disciplinary contest because these strategies challenge both disciplines to account for their normative dimensions. In this article, I show how different scholars and theologians typically negotiate the relationship between theology and genealogies of religion by closing off historicist inquiries in directions that either reduce or preserve the analytic value of the discourses of religion. These two options (either/or) cross disciplinary boundaries and relativize matters of belief and unbelief. Drawing on Robert Orsi’s work, I argue for a third option, which opens the study of religion and theology to competing presences, and distinguishes, as Bruno Latour does, the procedures of multiplying networks of actors from composing a common world. This third option suggests a freer, more collaborative vision of academic life.

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宗教研究的神学和家谱

在其相对短暂的生命中，宗教研究学科对神学提出了若干挑战。宗教研究中谱系策略的流行改变了学科竞赛的性质，因为这些策略挑战两个学科来解释它们的规范维度。在这篇文章中，我展示了不同的学者和神学家通常如何通过关闭历史主义调查来减少或保留宗教话语的分析价值，从而协商神学和宗教谱系之间的关系。这两个选项（或/或）跨越学科界限，将信仰和不信仰的问题相对化。借鉴罗伯特·奥尔西的著作，我主张第三种选择，它将宗教和神学研究开放给相互竞争的存在，并区分，正如布鲁诺·拉图尔所做的那样，将参与者网络相乘以构成一个共同世界的过程。第三种选择表明了对学术生活更自由、更协作的愿景。