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Readings in the Theory of Religion - Map, Text, Body (Paperback)
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Readings in the Theory of Religion - Map, Text, Body (Paperback)
Series: Critical Categories in the Study of Religion
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This volume takes as its object not religion as such but a set of
interventions that raised to scholarly consciousness some of the
intellectual problems and political stakes in the representation of
religion. Its point of departure is Wilfred Cantwell Smith's early
critique of European and North American productions of 'religion'
as an object of knowledge. Selections take up something of the form
and consequences of Smith's argument as the task of making explicit
the historically determined status of religion's use as a category
for describing and differentiating humans, their behaviors and
social practices. Thematic links are made between classic
interventions in Religious Studies and related fields of critical
inquiry (including essays by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Joan
Wallach Scott, and Jonathan Z. Smith) and their contemporary
interlocutors. Framed innovatively by the themes of cultural and
scholarly mapping, the critique of texts and textuality, and
sexualized, racialized, and gendered constructions of the body,
with each section prefaced by original contributions from leading
scholars in the field (e.g. Amy Hollywood and Burton Mack),
Readings in the Theory of Religion will prove indispensable to
students and scholars in every sub-field of critical and cultural
studies of religion.
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