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Subject(s)

• Religion—Study and teaching [Browse]

Summary note

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.

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Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-311) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• 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

ISBN

• 1-134-47799-6
• 1-134-47800-3
• 1-280-02279-5
• 0-203-46038-3
• 0-203-45179-1

OCLC

252869267

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203451793

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