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Entanglements
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- Book Synopsis
- As an answer to those who claim that scholarship on the category religion is only of secondary interest, inasmuch as it fails to do primary research on real religions, Entanglements collects eighteen responses, written across twenty years, that each exemplify the inevitably situated, give-and-take nature of all academic debate, thereby calling into question the often used distinction between primary and secondary sources, between description and analysis. Its chapters, published here in their original form, are accompanied by new, substantive introductions that describe the original situation of each response while also arguing for how each exemplifies something still at stake in the academic study of religion--whether its 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.
- About The Author
- Russell T. McCutcheon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. His major publications include Manufacutring Religion (Oxford University Press, 1997), The Guide to the Study of Religion (Bloomsbury, 2000), Critics not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (State University of New York Press, 2001) and The Discipline of Religion: Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric (Routledge, 2003). His most recent book, co-authored with William Arnal, is The Sacred is the Profane: The Political Nature of 'Religion' (Oxford University Press, 2013).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781781790762
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Equinox Publishing, (31 July 2014)
- Number of Pages
- 302
- Weight
- 594 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 156 x 21 mm
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