what do the religious scholars of today emphasis most often upon? what has its resulted in?
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Answer: Today religious studies is practiced by scholars worldwide. In its early years, it was known as " comparative religion " or the science of religion and, in the US, there are those who today also know the field as the History of religion (associated with methodological traditions traced to the University of Chicago in general, and in particular
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Scholars who study religion often disagree strongly over the values that ought to guide their academic work. Researchers within and across disciplines debate which methods to use, which audiences to target, the extent to which an individual's own religious faith should influence his or her scholarship, and even how to define their object of study. However, it appears to us that the environment within which these conversations typically play out is somewhat like that of an extended family gathering at a reunion: Some want to avoid discussing these disciplinary tensions, while others won't stop talking about it. Most scholars of religion seem to be aware of the quite different values that characterize the broader field, but there is no general agreement about what to do about it. Almost all members of this “extended family” of academics share common scholarly values such as commitment to critical self‐reflection, openness to correction, and a desire to avoid conflict of interest. However, there is no consensus on a host of other issues, such as whether scholars of religion should pursue the same sort of intellectual and coalitional impartiality as scholars in other disciplines in the secular academy, or whether critically reflective scholarship of religion in the academy can (or ought) to be in the service of religious communities.