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  • Studying Religion

    An Introduction

    by Russell McCutcheon ...
    Widely used as a primer, a class text, or just a provocation to critical thinking, Studying Religion clearly explains the methods and theories employed in the academic study of religion by tackling the problem of how scholars define and then study religion. Written for all newcomers to the field, its brief chapters explore the three main ways in which religion is defined and, along the way, also ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Manufacturing Religion

    The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia

    by Russell T. McCutcheon ...
    First published in 1997, Manufacturing Religion was a controversial book because it critiqued a widely adopted style of scholarship that presumes that religion is utterly unique, inexplicable, and therefore able only to be interpreted by privileged scholars. Claiming religion to be sui generis (or self-caused), this approach has undisclosed practical effects--institutional and geo-political--at a ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Religion and the Domestication of Dissent

    Or, How to Live in a Less Than Perfect Nation

    by Russell T. McCutcheon ...
    Series series Religion in Culture
    In its first edition, Religion and the Domestication of Dissent focused on the representations of Islam that circulated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks—representations that scholars, pundits, and politicians alike used either to essentialize and demonize it or, instead, to isolate specific aspects as apolitical and thus tolerable faith. This little book’s larger thesis therefore argued for how the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Our Primary Expertise

    A Future for the Study of Religion

    by Russell T. McCutcheon, Aaron Hughes, Andie Alexander ...
    Our Primary Expertise: A Future for the Study of Religion brings the author full circle—from his first book in 1997, on how claims that religion was unique were used to establish the North America field to his present argument that its future is instead based on the degree to which its findings can be applied in a wide assortment of areas, both inside and outside of academia. Its previously ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • The Discipline of Religion

    Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric

    by Russell T. McCutcheon ...
    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 ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Manufacturing Religion

    The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia

    by Russell T. McCutcheon ...
    In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are the History of Religions as a discipline; Mircea Eliade, one of the founders of the modern discipline; recent scholarship on Eliade's life and politics; contemporary textbooks on world religions; and the oft ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Dialogues on Religion—and its Study

    A Critical Edition

    by Russell T. McCutcheon ...
    Dialogues on Religion—and its Study creatively revives a time-honored genre by offering a series of new speeches on religion (its definition, description, comparison, and explanation) between two old friends who periodically meet throughout the year. Eventually working their way to examining why we tend to call part of our world and our experiences religious, nonspecialist readers can eavesdrop on ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Critics Not Caretakers

    Redescribing the Public Study of Religion

    by Russell T. McCutcheon ...
    The essays collected together in Critics Not Caretakers argue that the study of religion must be rethought as an ordinary aspect of social, historical existence, a stance that makes the scholar of religion a critic of cultural and historical practices rather than a caretaker of religious tradition or a font of timeless wisdom and deep meaning.The book begins with several essays that outline the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Writing Religion

    The Case for the Critical Study of Religion

    by Steven W. Ramey, Theodore Louis Trost, Steven Leonard Jacobs, Russell T. McCutcheon, Russell T. McCutcheon, Arjun Appadurai, Aaron W. Hughes0, Martin S. Jaffee1, Nathan Katz2, Amy-Jill Levine3, Bruce Lincoln4, Tomoko Masuzawa5, Ann Pellegrini6, Judith Plaskow7, Jonathan Z. Smith8 ...
    In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion is an edited collection of essays that ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Teaching in the Study of Religion and Beyond

    A Practical Guide for Undergraduate Classes

    Edited by Professor Russell T. McCutcheon ...
    Drawing on their wide experience in the undergraduate classroom, the contributors address basic but current issues in university teaching. This book provides practical commentary and invites instructors to consider how to address the learning needs of their students, while taking into account the wider structural requirements of administrations, governments, or credentialing agencies.Consisting of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • What Is Religion?

    Debating the Academic Study of Religion

    Edited by Aaron W. Hughes, Russell T. McCutcheon ...
    Controversies over how to define the word "religion" have persisted for decades. It is a term of art and of academic study, but also one of governance, technologies, and of networks; it is a concept whose diversity is often its own worst enemy. "Religion" is as much a fuzzy set of conceptualizations and generalizations about a range of human activities as it is an authorizing system of persons, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Reading J. Z. Smith

    Interviews & Essay

    Edited by Willi Braun, Russell T. McCutcheon ...
    Over the course of a career of more than forty years, Jonathan Z. Smith was among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion, distinguishing himself as perhaps the most influential theorist of religion of the last half century. Among his significant body of work are essays and lectures on teaching and the essential role of academic scholarship on ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD