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Manufacturing religion : the discourse on sui generis religion and the politics of nostalgia / Russell T. McCutcheon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCutcheon, Russell T., 1961- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion--Study and teaching--Methodology.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offering a critique of traditional religion scholarship, this work focuses on multiple interrelated targets. It covers the history of religions as a discipline, and examines the ideological basis for, and service of, the "sui generis" argument.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: The Manufacture of ""Religion""; 1. Ideological Strategies and the Politics of Nostalgia; 2. Autonomy, Discourses, and Social Privilege; 3. The Debate on the Autonomy of Eliade; 4. The Poverty of Theory in the Classroom; 5. The Category Religion in Recent Scholarship; 6. The Imperial Dynamic and the Discourse on Religion; 7. Institutional Identity and the Significance of Theory; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028298-3
- 0-19-774002-2
- 1-280-45270-6
- 0-19-535568-7
- 0-585-20792-5
- OCLC:
- 476009817
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb30846 hdl
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