Identity and the politics of scholarship in the study of religion / edited by José Ignacio Cabezón, Sheila Greeve Davaney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cabezón, José Ignacio, 1956-

Davaney, Sheila Greeve.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Study and teaching.

Religion.

Physical Description:

iv, 236 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2004.

Contents:

Between identity and footnotes / Sheila Greeve Davaney

Identity and the work of the scholar of religion / José Ignacio Cabezón

Religious identity and the study of Buddhism / Francisca Cho

Following in the footnotes of the apostle Paul / Pamela Eisenbaum

Neither here nor there : crossing boundaries, becoming insiders, remaining Catholic

/ Francis X. Clooney

Religious identity, scholarship, and teaching religion / Rita Gross

Balancing acts : navigating between the ethics of scholarship and identity / Tazim Kassam

Post-holocaust Jewish identity and the academy : on traveling the diaspora and the experience of the double standard / Marc Ellis

Being John Woodroffe : some mythical reflections on the postcolonial study of Hindu tantra / Jeffrey Kripal

Identity as an intellectual problem / Kwasi Wiredu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415970652

0415970660

OCLC:

55682276