Manufacturing religion : the discourse on sui generis religion and the politics of nostalgia /
"In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are the History of Religions as a discipline; Mircea Eliade, one of the founders of the modern discipline; recent...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Manufacture of "Religion"
- 1. Ideological Strategies and the Politics of Nostalgia
- 2. Autonomy, Discourses, and Social Privilege
- 3. The Debate on the Autonomy of Eliade
- 4. The Poverty of Theory in the Classroom
- 5. The Category Religion in Recent Scholarship
- 6. The Imperial Dynamic and the Discourse on Religion
- 7. Institutional Identity and the Significance of Theory.
