Editor’s Introduction to Drudgery Divine at 35: Reconsiderations and Applications Nathanael J. Homewood First published: 19 November 2025 https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17992 Editor’s Note: This article is part of a symposium, “Drudgery Divine at 35: Reconsiderations and Application” in Religious Studies Review Volume 51, no. 3. In an introduction and four essays, the contributors consider the continued relevance and import of Jonathan Z. Smith’s writing, especially Drudgery Divine. Other articles include: Nathanael J. Homewood, “Editor’s Introduction to Drudgery Divine at 35: Reconsiderations and Application”; Adam T. DeSchriver, “Locating Theory in the Work of Jonathan Z. Smith (1938–2017): An Overvie”; Russell T. McCutcheon, “Retooling the Study of Religion by Rectifying Our Bias Toward the ‘Unique’: On the Continued Relevance of Jonathan Z. Smith’s Drudgery Divin”; William Arnal, “Drudgery, Terminable and Interminabl”; and Karen deVries, “Thinking with Jonathan Z. Smith and Drudgery Divine on the 35th Anniversary of Its Publication”.
Last letter disappears in the titles of some of these contributions, in the abstract? Is this intentional? #overvie #divin #interminabl