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Who Owns Religion? - Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Who Owns Religion? - Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Who Owns Religion? focuses on a period--the late 1980s through the
1990s--when scholars of religion were accused of scandalizing or
denigrating the very communities they had imagined themselves
honoring through their work. While controversies involving
scholarly claims about religion are nothing new, this period saw an
increase in vitriol that remains with us today. Authors of
seemingly arcane studies on subjects like the origins of the idea
of Mother Earth or the sexual dynamics of mysticism have been
targets of hate mail and book-banning campaigns. As a result,
scholars of religion have struggled to describe their own work to
their various publics, and even to themselves. Taking the reader
through several compelling case studies, Patton identifies two
trends of the '80s and '90s that fueled that rise: the growth of
multicultural identity politics, which enabled a form of volatile
public debate she terms "eruptive public space," and the advent of
the internet, which offered new ways for religious groups to read
scholarship and respond publicly. These controversies, she shows,
were also fundamentally about something new: the very rights of
secular, Western scholarship to interpret religions at all.
Patton's book holds out hope that scholars can find a space for
their work between the university and the communities they study.
Scholars of religion, she argues, have multiple masters and must
move between them while writing histories and speaking about
realities that not everyone may be interested in hearing.
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