Critics Not Caretakers Redescribing the Public Study of Religion

Name: Critics Not Caretakers Redescribing the Public Study of Religion
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ISBN: 9780791449431

ISBN-10: 0791449432

ISBN-13: 9780791449431

Edition: 2001

Authors: Russell T. McCutcheon

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 3/29/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Copyright Permissions



Redescribing Religion as Something Ordinary



More Than a Shapeless Beast: Lumbering through the Academy with the Study of Religion



Redescribing 'Religion' as Social Formation: Toward a Social Theory of Religion



Dispatches from the Theory Wars



Writing a History of God: "Just the Same Game Wherever You Go"



Explaining the Sacred: Theorizing on Religion in the Late Twentieth Century



"We're All Stuck Somewhere": Taming Ethnocentrism and Transcultural Understandings



The Economics of Spiritual Luxury: The Glittering Lobby and the World's Parliament of Religions



"My Theory of the Brontosaurus ...": Postmodernism and "Theory" of Religion



Culture Critics and Caretakers



A Default of Critical Intelligence? The Scholar of Religion as Public Intellectual



Talking Past Each Other: The Issue of Public Intellectuals Revisited



Going Public: Teaching Theory



Our "Special Promise" as Teachers: Scholars of Religion and the Politics of Tolerance



Redescribing "Religion and ..." Film: Teaching the Insider/Outsider Problem



Methods and Theories in the Classroom: Teaching the Study of Myths and Rituals



Theorizing in the Introductory Course: A Survey of Resources



Afterword


Afterword


References


Index