Manufacturing Religion : The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195105036
ISBN-13
9780195105032
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
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Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 31st, 1997
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
534 grams
Dimensions
24.10 x 16.70 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy of religion
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Offering a critique of traditional religion scholarship, this work focuses on multiple interrelated targets. It covers the history of religions as a discipline, and examines the ideological basis for, and service of, the "sui generis" argument.
In this book, Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional religious scholarship, focusing on a number of 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 skilfully analyses 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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