LEADER 02449oam 2200565zu 450 001 9910965766203321 005 20210731015146.0 035 $a(CKB)3460000000128163 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000820865 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11524074 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820865 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10881789 035 $a(PQKB)10384415 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000115784 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5745565 035 $a(EXLCZ)993460000000128163 100 $a20160829d2013 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe allure of decadent thinking : religious studies and the challenge of postmodernism 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-19-995983-8 311 08$a0-19-931597-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Eroticism, violence, and sacrifice -- Excess, time, and the pure gift -- Genealogy, power, and discourse -- Hermeneutics, comparison, and difference -- The problematic nature of representational thinking -- Responding to the postmodern challenge. 330 8 $aThe use of postmodern thought to approach the study of religion threatens to call into question the values and representational mode of thinking typical of the field. Religious studies with a radical scepticism grounded in an embrace of decadence by postmodern thinkers has the potential to undermine, subvert, and distort the study of religion, making it difficult to understand the subject if such an approach is uncritically adopted by scholars seeking new ways to study it. 606 $aReligion$xMethodology 606 $aReligion$xStudy and teaching 606 $aPostmodernism 606 $aReligion$2HILCC 606 $aPhilosophy & Religion$2HILCC 606 $aReligion - General$2HILCC 615 0$aReligion$xMethodology. 615 0$aReligion$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aPostmodernism. 615 7$aReligion 615 7$aPhilosophy & Religion 615 7$aReligion - General 676 $a200.72 700 $aOlson$b Carl$0614704 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965766203321 996 $aThe allure of decadent thinking : religious studies and the challenge of postmodernism$94446705 997 $aUNINA