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MANUFACTURING RELIGION: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics
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- 9780195105032
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Religion
- Topic
- Christian Theology / General, Education
- Item Width
- 6.6in
- Item Weight
- 18.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are the History of Religions as a discipline; Mircea Eliade, one of the founders of the modern discipline; recent scholarship on Eliade's life and politics; contemporary textbooks on world religions; and the oft-repeated bromide that "religion" is a sui generis phenomenon. McCutcheon skillfully analyzes the ideological basis for and service of the sui generis argument, demonstrating that it has been used to constitute the field's object of study in a form that is ahistoric, apolitical, fetishized, and sacrosanct. As such, he charges, it has helped to create departments, jobs, and publication outlets for those who are comfortable with such a suspect construction, while establishing a disciplinary ethos of astounding theoretical naivete and a body of scholarship to match. Surveying the textbooks available for introductory courses in comparative religion, the author finds that they uniformly adopt the sui generis line and all that comes with it. As a result, he argues, they are not just uncritical (which helps keep them popular among the audiences for which they are intended, but badly disserve), but actively inhibit the emergence of critical perspectives and capacities. And on the geo-political scale, he contends, the study of religion as an ahistorical category participates in a larger system of political domination and economic and cultural imperialism.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195105036
ISBN-13
9780195105032
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1010334
Product Key Features
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Christian Theology / General, Education
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Genre
Religion
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
18.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bl41.M35 1997
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"[McCutcheon] stands in a long tradition of excellent company that goes back at least as far as classical Greek dramatists and philosophers who inquired persistently into the prevailing mythos....This book's likely to provoke very fruitful debate for many years."--Choice, "[McCutcheon] stands in a long tradition of excellent company that goes back at least as far as classical Greek dramatists and philosophers who inquired persistently into the prevailing mythos....This book s likely to provoke very fruitful debate for many years."--Choice"...McCutcheon's book is a sharp, sustained critique of the way religion is studied in North America, with an alternative proposal for a naturalist, materialist method of studying religion."--The Cresser Trinity"McCutcheon's book is a formidable critique of its subject and should be widely read and debated. It will repay close critical attention from those interested in theory and method."--British Association for the Study of Religions"...the book is fascinating and thought-provoking."--eligious Studies Review, "[McCutcheon] stands in a long tradition of excellent company that goes back at least as far as classical Greek dramatists and philosophers who inquired persistently into the prevailing mythos....This book's likely to provoke very fruitful debate for many years."-- Choice "...McCutcheon's book is a sharp, sustained critique of the way religion is studied in North America, with an alternative proposal for a naturalist, materialist method of studying religion."-- The Cresser Trinity "McCutcheon's book is a formidable critique of its subject and should be widely read and debated. It will repay close critical attention from those interested in theory and method."-- British Association for the Study of Religions "...the book is fascinating and thought-provoking."--eligious Studies Review, "McCutcheon's book is a formidable critique of its subject and should bewidely read and debated. It will repay close critical attention from thoseinterested in theory and method."--British Association for the Study ofReligions, "[McCutcheon] stands in a long tradition of excellent company that goes back at least as far as classical Greek dramatists and philosophers who inquired persistently into the prevailing mythos....This book s likely to provoke very fruitful debate for many years."--Choice "...McCutcheon's book is a sharp, sustained critique of the way religion is studied in North America, with an alternative proposal for a naturalist, materialist method of studying religion."--The Cresser Trinity "McCutcheon's book is a formidable critique of its subject and should be widely read and debated. It will repay close critical attention from those interested in theory and method."--British Association for the Study of Religions "...the book is fascinating and thought-provoking."--eligious Studies Review, "...McCutcheon's book is a sharp, sustained critique of the way religionis studied in North America, with an alternative proposal for a naturalist,materialist method of studying religion."--The Cresser Trinity, "McCutcheon's book is a formidable critique of its subject and should be widely read and debated. It will repay close critical attention from those interested in theory and method."--British Association for the Study of Religions, "[McCutcheon] stands in a long tradition of excellent company that goesback at least as far as classical Greek dramatists and philosphers who inquiredpersistently into the prevailing mythos....This book s likely to provoke veryfruitful debate for many years."--Choice, "[McCutcheon] stands in a long tradition of excellent company that goes back at least as far as classical Greek dramatists and philosophers who inquired persistently into the prevailing mythos....This book s likely to provoke very fruitful debate for many years."--Choice"...McCutcheon's book is a sharp, sustained critique of the way religion is studied in North America, with an alternative proposal for a naturalist, materialist method of studying religion."--The Cresser Trinity"McCutcheon's book is a formidable critique of its subject and should be widely read and debated. It will repay close critical attention from those interested in theory and method."--British Association for the Study of Religions"...the book is fascinating and thought-provoking."--eligious Studies Review"[McCutcheon] stands in a long tradition of excellent company that goes back at least as far as classical Greek dramatists and philosophers who inquired persistently into the prevailing mythos....This book's likely to provoke very fruitful debate for many years."--Choice"...McCutcheon's book is a sharp, sustained critique of the way religion is studied in North America, with an alternative proposal for a naturalist, materialist method of studying religion."--The Cresser Trinity"McCutcheon's book is a formidable critique of its subject and should be widely read and debated. It will repay close critical attention from those interested in theory and method."--British Association for the Study of Religions"...the book is fascinating and thought-provoking."--eligious Studies Review, "...McCutcheon's book is a sharp, sustained critique of the way religion is studied in North America, with an alternative proposal for a naturalist, materialist method of studying religion."--The Cresser Trinity
Publication Name
Manufacturing Religion : the Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia
Copyright Date
1997
Lccn
96-022755
Dewey Decimal
200/.72
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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