Identity and the politics of scholarship in the study of religion / / edited by Jose Ignacio Cabezon, Sheila Greeve Davaney

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 200/.71
• Soggetto topico: Religion - Study and teaching
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: CabezonJose Ignacio <1956-> DavaneySheila Greeve
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Between identity and footnotes / Sheila Greeve Davaney -- Identity and the work of the scholar of religion / José Ignacio Cabezón -- Religious identity and the study of Buddhism / Francisca Cho -- Following in the footnotes of the apostle Paul / Pamela Eisenbaum -- Neither here nor there : crossing boundaries, becoming insiders, remaining Catholic -- / Francis X. Clooney -- Religious identity, scholarship, and teaching religion / Rita Gross -- Balancing acts : navigating between the ethics of scholarship and identity / Tazim Kassam -- Post-holocaust Jewish identity and the academy : on traveling the diaspora and the experience of the double standard / Marc Ellis -- Being John Woodroffe : some mythical reflections on the postcolonial study of Hindu tantra / Jeffrey Kripal -- Identity as an intellectual problem / Kwasi Wiredu.
• Sommario/riassunto: Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Religion features some of the most well-known and respected scholars in religious studies offering critical reflections on the relationship of identity to scholarship in their field.Similar studies have dealt with these issues of subjectivity and identity in other fields, but none have approached or appreciated the special problems they present for the study of religion. Cabezon and Davaney aim to fill this gap by offering a sophisticated collection on sexual identity and gender, ethnicity, race and religious affiliations and their relat
• Titolo autorizzato: Identity and the politics of scholarship in the study of religion
• ISBN: 1-135-87718-1; 1-135-87719-X; 1-280-06439-0; 0-203-32462-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450805303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II