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Fabricating religion : fanfare for the common e.g. /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McCutcheon, Russell T., 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.