Thread:Una74/@comment-2601:640:103:A0E2:58DB:7F03:8B5B:CBD6-20180716161019/@comment-2607:F140:6000:C:504C:87AE:BBB0:EF01-20180719184910

Wow, that conversation has gotten pretty personal. Here's my personal take and the reason why I made the request to begin with: we all look at different pages at the jobs postings, as I mentioned before. It's not an inconvenience to look at different pages, because we choose which pages to look at and we look at them. It IS however, an inconvenience to be forced to look at a page. That's what it feels like now: if I want to look at religious studies, I am being forced to also look at theology, which is being included in religious studies and sprinkled in.

If I asked you to combine cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, because I look at both and it would be more convenient for me to see them in one page, would that make any sense? No, because it comes at the expense of inconveniencing others.

No one looks at theology, except theologians. But anthropologists, sociologists, cultural historians, area studies scholars, media studies scholars, etc. all look at religious studies (a very sad fact, but that's yet another story for religious studies scholars being raided by other fields). And in the process, we are all forced to look through theology jobs.

At the end of the day, it's really not that big a deal, but it's being blown out of proportion by theologians who want to be included in religious studies.