PT Journal AU McCutcheon, TR TI Religious Literacy and Our Pre-Critical Past SO e-rhizome PY 2020 BP 81 EP 91 VL 2 IS 2 DI 10.5507/rh.2020.006 DE Critical religion; Interreligious dialogue; North American Association for the Study of Religion; Phenomenology of religion; Religious literacy; World religions paradigm AB Using the recent emphasis on teaching religious literacy as an example, the paper argues that, despite seeming advances over the past few generations, the academic study of religion continues to employ problematic methods and terminology, indicative of unresolved theoretical issues that remain at the heart of this scholarly exercise. ER