The Realism of Discourse: Critical Reflections on the Work of Kevin Schilbrack

Abstract In recent years, there has been an increasing number of scholars who have argued that “religion” is a specifically modern category which first emerged in Western Europe the seventeenth century and was further developed, extended to rest world, context colonialism. This, turn, led discussion what these studies mean for study religion. this article, I examine influential answer question as it emerges work Kevin Schilbrack, argues favour critical realist position. argue, however, Schilbrack misrepresents nature one other main theoretical approaches on offer, namely discursive This problem because relational Schilbrack’s project, he his own position based problems identifies alternatives.