The Manufacturing Religion: Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia
Author:   Professor of Religious Studies Russell T McCutcheon (University of Alabama)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press, USA
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9781280452703


Pages:   249
Publication Date:   01 January 1997
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The Manufacturing Religion: Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia


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This work offers a critique of traditional religion scholarship, focusing serially on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are history of religions as a discipline; Mircea Eliade, the founder of the discipline; contemporary textbooks on world religions; and the oft-repeated bromide that religion is a sui generis phenomenon. He analyzes the ideological basis for and service of the sui generis argument, demonstrating that it has been used to constitute the field's object of study in a form that is ahistoric, apolitical, fetishized, and sacrosanct.

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Author:   Professor of Religious Studies Russell T McCutcheon (University of Alabama)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press, USA
Imprint:   Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:  

9781280452703


ISBN 10:   1280452706
Pages:   249
Publication Date:   01 January 1997
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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