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The discipline of religion : structure, meaning, rhetoric /
This volume is a critical journey through religious studies in the 21st century, looking at its growth as an academic discipline, and its contemporary political and social meaning.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter Introduction
- part PART I Genealogy of credibility
- chapter 1 Form, content, and the treasury of devices
- chapter 2 God's people defending their ivory towers: reassessing the study of religion's emergence in the U.S
- Reassessing the study of religion's emergence in the U.S.
- chapter 3 Autonomy, unity, and crisis
- Rhetoric and the invention of a discipline
- chapter 4 Classification and the dog's breakfast
- The American Academy of Religion's research interest survey
- part PART II Techniques of dominance
- chapter 5 The good, the bad, and the ugly
- Looking past the violence of cults and fanatics
- chapter 6 Alienation, apprenticeship, and the crisis of academic labor
- chapter 7 "Like small bumps on the back of the neck ..."
- The problem of evil as something ordinary
- chapter 8 The jargon of authenticity and the study of religion
- part PART III Reworking the residue from our imperfect past
- chapter 9 Methods, theories, and the terrors of history
- Closing the Eliadean era with some dignity
- chapter 10 The perfect past and the irony of narrative
- Bruce Lincoln's Theorizing Myth
- chapter 11 "Religion" and the citizen's unrequited desires
- Chips from the religion industry's workshop
- chapter 12 "Religion" and the governable self.