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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 |
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: | 1-134-47799-6 |
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.: | 9910815958503321 |
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