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Entanglements - Marking Place in the Field of Religion (Paperback, New)
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Entanglements - Marking Place in the Field of Religion (Paperback, New)
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Entanglements attempts to argue against those who claim that
scholarship on the category religion is only of secondary interest,
in that it fails to do primary research on real religions. The
volume collects eighteen responses, written across twenty years,
that each exemplify the inevitably situated, give-and-take nature
of all academic debate. These essays call into question the often
used distinction between primary and secondary sources, between
description and analysis. Published here in their original form,
each contribution is accompanied by new, substantive introduction
describing the context of each response and explaining how each
shows something still at stake in the academic study of
religion--whether it's the rhetoric used to authorize competing
scholarly claims or the difficulty involved in suspending our
commonsense view of the world long enough to study the means by
which we have come to see it that way. An ethnography of scholarly
practice written mainly for earlier career readers--whether
undergraduate or graduate students or even tenure-track
faculty--Entanglements tackles the notion that some scholarship is
more pristine, and thus more valuable, than others, thereby
modeling for scholars earlier in their careers some of the
obstacles and arguments that may face them should their research
interests be judged unorthodox.
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