The Discipline of Religion: Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric

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Routledge, 2003. dec. 8. - 352 oldal
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 meanings. Focusing on the differences between religious belief and academic religious discourse, Russell T. McCutcheon argues that the invention of religion as a discipline blurs the distinction between criticism and doctrine in its assertion of the relevance of faith as a credible object of study. In the leap from disciplinary criticism to avowal of actual cosmic and moral meaning, schools of religious studies extend their powers far beyond universities and into the everyday lives of those outside, managing and curtailing specific types of speech and dissent.
 

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PART I
13
rhetoric and the invention of
54
the American Academy
83
PART II
99
Alienation apprenticeship and the crisis of academic labor
127
the problem of evil
146
The jargon of authenticity and the study of religion
167
PART III
189
Bruce Lincolns
213
chips from
230
Religion and the governable self
252
Afterword
291
Index
313
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RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He is author of Manufacturing Religion (1997) and Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (2001), editor of The Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion (1999), and co-editor with Willi Braun of Guide to the Study of Religion (2000).

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