A Direct Question Deserves a Direct Answer: A Response to Atalia Omer's "Can a Critic Be a Caretaker too?"

Abstract

The refreshingly straightforward question contained in the title of Atalia Omer’s article (2011) affords me the opportunity for an equally direct answer: No. But because engaging scholarship requires us to offer well-argued reasons for our decisions—I recall here Bruce Lincoln’s “show your work ” (1999: 208)—I must back up and start anew. In May of 2012, I was asked by David Robertson—one of the found-ers and hosts of the web-based The Religious Studies Project—to provide a concluding commentary to a series of short interviews con-cerning whether scholars of religion should be critics or caretakers.1 While I certainly do not have any special ownership of either of these

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