Manufacturing Religion : The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia
2 Revised edition
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0197818811
ISBN-13
9780197818817
Edition
2 Revised edition
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 20th, 2026
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
530 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 23.50 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Comparative religionHistory of religionComparative religionHistory of religion
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First published in 1997, Manufacturing Religion offered a powerful critique of the way religion has been studied by scholars. Updating its wide-ranging evidence and adding new chapters, this new edition demonstrates the impact of this critique while showing how little the field has generally moved in the past thirty years.
First published in 1997, Manufacturing Religion was a controversial book because it critiqued a widely adopted style of scholarship that presumes that religion is utterly unique, inexplicable, and therefore able only to be interpreted by privileged scholars. Claiming religion to be sui generis (or self-caused), this approach has undisclosed practical effects--institutional and geo-political--at a variety of sites, from the types of textbooks commonly used in introductory classes to the way that political events are often represented in the mass media. Russell McCutcheon documented the ubiquity of this approach and showed how harmful it wasUpdating its wide-ranging evidence and adding new chapters, this new edition demonstrates the impact of this critique while showing how little the field has generally moved in the past thirty years.
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