LEADER 02566nam 2200541 a 450 001 9910810553703321 005 20230617040628.0 010 $a0-19-534715-3 010 $a1-4237-5678-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000413468 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24083062 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176182 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11165645 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176182 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10206328 035 $a(PQKB)10855960 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4702676 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000413468 100 $a20040903e20041999 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe ideology of religious studies$b[electronic resource] /$fTimothy Fitzgerald 210 $aNew York ;$aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2004 300 $aOriginally published: 1999. 311 $a0-19-516769-4 330 $aArguing that the concept of religion should be abandoned, Fitzgerald maintains that the so-called study of religions is really a barely disguised form of liberal ecumenical theology, on the basis of his own research in Japan and India. 330 $bIn recent years there has been an intensifying debate within the religious studies community about the validity of religion as an analytical category. In this book Fitzgerald sides with those who argue that the concept of religion itself should be abandoned. On the basis of his own research in India and Japan, and through a detailed analysis of the use of religion in a wide range of scholarly texts, the author maintains that the comparative study of religion is really a form of liberal ecumenical theology. By pretending to be a science, religion significantly distorts socio-cultural analysis. He suggest, however, that religious studies can be re-represented in a way which opens up new and productive theoretical connections with anthropology and cultural and literary studies. 606 $aReligion$xStudy and teaching 606 $aReligion - General$2HILCC 606 $aReligion$2HILCC 606 $aPhilosophy & Religion$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books.$2lcsh 615 0$aReligion$xStudy and teaching. 615 7$aReligion - General 615 7$aReligion 615 7$aPhilosophy & Religion 676 $a200.7 700 $aFitzgerald$b Timothy$f1947-$01648053 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 801 2$bUkPrAHLS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810553703321 996 $aThe ideology of religious studies$93995954 997 $aUNINA