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Fabricating Religion - Fanfare for the Common e.g. (Paperback)
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The revised essays collected here, four of which are published for
the first time, continue a longstanding argument made by McCutcheon
and others: that the study of religion would benefit from
self-conscious scrutiny of its tools, the interests that may drive
them, and the effects that might follow their use. The chapters
examine a variety of contemporary sites in the modern field where
this thesis can be argued, whether involving the anachronistic use
of of the category religion when studying the ancient world to
current interest in so-called critical religion or critical realist
approaches. Moreover - contrary to some past characterizations of
such critiques - a constructive way forward for the field is once
again recommended and, at several sites, exemplified in detail:
redescribing not only religion as something ordinary but also our
tendency to create the impression of exceptional and thus set-apart
things, places, and people. Aimed at scholars and students alike,
the book is an invitation to examine our own scholarly practices
and thereby take a more active role in shaping the field in which
we carry out our work as scholars of this thing we call religion.
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