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1 online resource (399 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments to the Second Edition -- Copyright Permissions -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- PART I Background -- 1 "Not Nearly Critical Enough": Studying Religion as Part of the Humanities -- PART II Redescribing Religion as Something Ordinary -- Chapter 2: Introduction -- 2 More Than a Shapeless Beast: Lumbering Through the Academy With the Study of Religion -- Religion as a Private Affair -- The Naturalistic Tradition |
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Redescribing a Folk Category -- The Impossibility of an Academic Study of Undefinable Essences -- Conclusion: More Than a Shapeless Beast -- Chapter 3: Introduction -- 3 Redescribing "Religion" as Social Formation: Toward a Social Theory of Religion -- Appendix: Mythmaking and Social Formation -- PART III Dispatches From the Theory Wars -- Chapter 4: Introduction -- 4 Writing a History of God: "Just the Same Game Wherever You Go" -- Chapter 5: Introduction -- 5 Explaining the Sacred: Theorizing On Religion in the Late Twentieth Century -- Chapter 6: Introduction |
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6 "We're All Stuck Somewhere": Taming Ethnocentrism and Trans-Cultural Understandings -- Chapter 7: Introduction -- 7 The Economics of Spiritual Luxury: The Glittering Lobby and the Parliament of Religions -- Introduction -- From Description to Redescription -- The Politics of Mythmaking -- Emancipation From the Globalizing Hegemony -- Spirituality in the Glittering Lobby -- The Economics of Spiritual Luxury -- The Autonomy of Religion and the Ideology of Global Consumerism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Introduction -- 8 "My Theory of the Brontosaurus...": Postmodernism and "Theory" of Religion |
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The Problem of Demarcation -- Just What Is Postmodernism? -- Games People Play: Tennis Anyone? -- Appropriating Postmodernism -- Theory as Explanation -- Theory as Critique -- In What Sense Is Karl Barth a "Theorist" of Religion? -- Conclusion: Confusing Theories With Data -- PART IV Culture Critics and Caretakers -- Chapters 9 and 10: Introduction -- 9 A Default of Critical Intelligence?: The Scholar of Religion as Public Intellectual -- A Problem of Our Own Making -- The Essential Make-Up of Things and the Scholar of Religion -- Scholars of Religion as Translators: Our Failure of Critical Nerve |
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Political Marginalization and the Autonomy of Religion -- To Reproduce Or Contest Authority? Now That Is the Question? -- The Scholar of Religion as Critic -- Models for Critiquing Authorizing Strategies -- Conclusion: A Period of Some Significance for the Study of Religion -- 10 Talking Past Each Other: Public Intellectuals Revisited -- Man Bites Dog -- Making a List, But Checking It Twice -- Theologians, Humanists, and Social Scientists -- PART V Going Public: Teaching Theory -- Chapters 11-14: Introduction |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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11 Our "Special Promise" as Teachers: Scholars of Religion and the Politics of Tolerance |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000996715 |
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1000996719 |
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