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Autore |
McCutcheon Russell T. <1961-> |
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Titolo |
The discipline of religion : structure, meaning, rhetoric / / Russell T. McCutcheon |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-47799-6 |
1-134-47800-3 |
1-280-02279-5 |
0-203-46038-3 |
0-203-45179-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (342 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Religion - Study and teaching |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-311) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface: a dispatch from the provinces; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Genealogy of credibility; Form, content, and the treasury of devices; God's people defending their ivory towers: reassessing the study of religion's emergence in the U.S.; Autonomy, unity, and crisis: rhetoric and the invention of a discipline; Classification and the dog's breakfast: the American Academy of Religion's research interest survey; Techniques of dominance; The good, the bad, and the ugly: looking past the violence of cults and fanatics |
Alienation, apprenticeship, and the crisis of academic labor~Like small bumps on the back of the neck ~: the problem of evil as something ordinary; The jargon of authenticity and the study of religion; Reworking the residue from our imperfect past; Methods, theories, and the terrors of history: closing the Eliadean era with some dignity; The perfect past and the irony of narrative: Bruce Lincoln's Theorizing Myth; ~Religion~ and the citizen's unrequited desires: chips from the religion industry's workshop; ~Religion~ and the governable self; Afterword; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Discipline of Religion is a lively critical journey through religious |
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studies today, looking at its recent growth as an academic discipline, and its contemporary political and social meaning. |
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