The discipline of religion : structure, meaning, rhetoric / / Russell T. McCutcheon
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| Autore: |
McCutcheon Russell T. <1961-, >
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| Titolo: |
The discipline of religion : structure, meaning, rhetoric / / Russell T. McCutcheon
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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