Russell T. McCutcheon is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xvii
Copyright Permissions
xxi
PART I Redescribing Religion as Something Ordinary
More Than a Shapeless Beast: Lumbering through the Academy with the Study of Religion
3
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Redescribing `Religion' as Social Formation: Toward a Social Theory of Religion
21
(22)
PART II Dispatches from the Theory Wars
Writing a History of God: ``Just the Same Game Wherever You Go''
43
(14)
Explaining the Sacred: Theorizing on Religion in the Late Twentieth Century
57
(16)
``We're All Stuck Somewhere'': Taming Ethnocentrism and Transcultural Understandings
73
(12)
The Economics of Spiritual Luxury: The Glittering Lobby and the World's Parliament of Religions
85
(18)
``My Theory of the Brontosaurus...'': Postmodernism and ``Theory'' of Religion
103
(22)
PART III Culture Critics and Caretakers
A Default of Critical Intelligence? The Scholar of Religion as Public Intellectual
125
(20)
Talking Past Each Other: The Issue of Public Intellectuals Revisited
145
(10)
PART IV Going Public: Teaching Theory
Our ``Special Promise'' as Teachers: Scholars of Religion and the Politics of Tolerance
155
(24)
Redescribing ``Religion and...''Film: Teaching the Insider/Outsider Problem
179
(22)
Methods and Theories in the Classroom: Teaching the Study of Myths and Rituals
201
(16)
Theorizing in the Introductory Course: A Survey of Resources
217
(40)
PART V Afterword
Afterword
239
(2)
References
241
(16)
Index
257
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