Discipline of Religion

Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

The Discipline of Religion is a lively critical journey through religious studies today, looking at its recent growth as an academic discipline, and its contemporary political and social meanings. Focusing on the differences between religious belief and academic religious discourse, Russell T. McCutcheon argues that the invention of religion as a discipline blurs the distinction between criticism and doctrine in its assertion of the relevance of faith as a credible object of study. In the leap from disciplinary criticism to avowal of actual cosmic and moral meaning, schools of religious studies extend their powers far beyond universities and into the everyday lives of those outside, managing and curtailing specific types of speech and dissent.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-05-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:650 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:342
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415274906

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He is author of Manufacturing Religion (1997) and Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (2001), editor of The Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion (1999), and co-editor with Willi Braun of Guide to the Study of Religion (2000).

Recensioner i media

' ... as a contribution to meta-theoryThe Discipline of Religionis a well-argued and thought-provoking book.' - Numen

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction PART I Genealogy of credibility 1 Form, content, and the treasury of devices 2 God’s people defending their ivory towers: reassessing the study of religion’s emergence in the U.S. 3 Autonomy, unity, and crisis: rhetoric and the invention of a discipline 4 Classification and the dog’s breakfast: the American Academy of Religion’s research interest survey PART II Techniques of dominance 5 The good, the bad, and the ugly: looking past the violence of cults and fanatics 6 Alienation, apprenticeship, and the crisis of academic labor 7 “Like small bumps on the back of the neck … ”: the problem of evil as something ordinary 8 The jargon of authenticity and the study of religion PART III Reworking the residue from our imperfect past 9 Methods, theories, and the terrors of history: closing the Eliadean era with some dignity 10 The perfect past and the irony of narrative: Bruce Lincoln’s Theorizing Myth 11 “Religion” and the citizen’s unrequited desires: chips from the religion industry’s workshop 12 “Religion” and the governable self, Afterword