Fabricating Religion : : Fanfare for the Common e.g. / / Russell T. McCutcheon.

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• VerfasserIn: McCutcheon, Russell T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 186 p.)

The revised essays collected here, four of which are published for the first time, continue a longstanding argument made by McCutcheon and others: that the study of religion would benefit from self-conscious scrutiny of its tools, the interests that may drive them, and the effects that might follow...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction: On Fabricating Religion
• 1. The Category “Religion” in Recent Publications: Twenty Years Later
• 2. “It’s (Not) Easy if You Try:” The Challenge to Imagine No Religion
• 3. A Question (Still) Worth Asking about The Religions of Man
• 4. “Man is the Measure of All Things:” On The Fabrication of Oriental Religions by European History of Religions
• 5. Identifying the Meaning and End of Scholarship: What’s at Stake in Muslim Identities
• 6. Of Concepts and Entities: Varieties of Critical Scholarship
• 7. Historicizing the Elephant in the Room
• 8. The Magic of the Melancholy: Shifting Gears in the Study of Religion
• 9. Fanfare for the Common e.g.: On the Strategic Use of the Mundane
• Author Index
• Subject Index