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

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Cabezón, José Ignacio, 1956-
Davaney, Sheila Greeve.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Religion--Study and teaching.
Religion.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (241 p.)
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Religion features some of the most well-known and respected scholars in religious studies offering critical reflections on the relationship of identity to scholarship in their field.Similar studies have dealt with these issues of subjectivity and identity in other fields, but none have approached or appreciated the special problems they present for the study of religion. Cabezon and Davaney aim to fill this gap by offering a sophisticated collection on sexual identity and gender, ethnicity, race and religious affiliations and their relat
Contents:
Between identity and footnotes / Sheila Greeve Davaney
Identity and the work of the scholar of religion / Jose Ignacio Cabezon
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:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
1-135-87718-1
1-135-87719-X
1-280-06439-0
0-203-32462-5
9780203324622
OCLC:
437059608

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