03254oam 2200661I 450 991045094590332120200520144314.01-134-47800-31-280-02279-50-203-46038-30-203-45179-110.4324/9780203451793 (CKB)1000000000254540(EBL)181822(OCoLC)252869267(SSID)ssj0000375998(PQKBManifestationID)11292511(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000375998(PQKBWorkID)10327296(PQKB)10333533(SSID)ssj0000294064(PQKBManifestationID)11225520(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000294064(PQKBWorkID)10303356(PQKB)11095357(MiAaPQ)EBC181822(Au-PeEL)EBL181822(CaPaEBR)ebr10099829(CaONFJC)MIL2279(EXLCZ)99100000000025454020180706d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe discipline of religion structure, meaning, rhetoric /Russell T. McCutcheonLondon ;New York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (342 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-27490-7 0-415-27489-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-311) and index.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 fanaticsAlienation, 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; IndexThe Discipline of Religion is a lively critical journey through religious studies today, looking at its recent growth as an academic discipline, and its contemporary political and social meaning.ReligionStudy and teachingElectronic books.ReligionStudy and teaching.200/.7111.01bclMcCutcheon Russell T.1961-,873688FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910450945903321The discipline of religion1950385UNINA