Fabricating religion : fanfare for the common e.g. / Russell T. McCutcheon.

"In this new collection of essays, McCutcheon continues his argument for the strategic ways in which scholars develop categories in making sense of the world. Not content with critique, he suggests a way forward, involving seeing not just religion as a routine aspect of social life, but seeing the a...

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Uniform Title:Essays. Selections
Main Author: McCutcheon, Russell T., 1961- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2018]
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Physical Description:186 pages ; 24 cm
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505 0 |a Introduction: On fabricating religion -- The category religion in recent publications: twenty years later -- Its (not) easy if you try: the challenge to imagine no religion -- A question (still) worth asking about the religions of man -- Man is the measure of all things: on the fabrication of Oriental religions by European history of religions -- Identifying the meaning and end of scholarship: whats at stake in Muslim identities -- Of concepts and entities: varieties of critical scholarship -- Historicizing the elephant in the room -- The magic of the melancholy: shifting gears in the study of religion -- Fanfare for the common e.g.: on the strategic use of the mundane. 
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