Abstract
This lecture has three parts. The first deals with the roots and formation of the modern study of religion, especially in North America and Britain. Religious studies is aspectual, cross-cultural, multidisciplinary, and nonfinite (i.e., flowing beyond religions to cover analogous embodied worldviews). The second part deals with the cutting edges in religious studies and the various theologies, notably through the rediscovery of the phenomenology of religion, underpinned by a good general knowledge in the field. The third part suggests new ways of integrating religious studies, geographically and otherwise, via confederal links between the American Academy of Religion and other learned societies. This will lead to global integration of the study of religion. Also, our talents (especially, informed empathy) should be spread more widely and would be useful to a number of other professions. I conclude with a paradox about belief in God or nirvana.
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