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The discipline of religion : structure, meaning, rhetoric / / Russell T. McCutcheon



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Autore: McCutcheon Russell T. <1961-, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: The discipline of religion : structure, meaning, rhetoric / / Russell T. McCutcheon Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
Disciplina: 200/.71
Soggetto topico: Religion - Study and teaching
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Classificazione: 11.01
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-311) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: The 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The discipline of religion  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-47800-3
1-280-02279-5
0-203-46038-3
0-203-45179-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450945903321
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