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100 1  McCutcheon, Russell T., |d1961-, |eauthor.
245 14 The discipline of religion : |bstructure, meaning, rhetoric / |cRussell T. McCutcheon.
264  1 London ;New York : |bRoutledge, |c2003.
300    1 online resource (342 p.)
336    text |btxt
337    computer |bc
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500    Description based upon print version of record.
505 0  Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface: a dispatch from the provinces; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Genealogy of credibility; Form, content, and the treasury of devices; God's people defending their ivory towers: reassessing the study of religion's emergence in the U.S.; Autonomy, unity, and crisis: rhetoric and the invention of a discipline; Classification and the dog's breakfast: the American Academy of Religion's research interest survey; Techniques of dominance; The good, the bad, and the ugly: looking past the violence of cults and fanatics
505 8  Alienation, apprenticeship, and the crisis of academic labor~Like small bumps on the back of the neck  ~: the problem of evil as something ordinary; The jargon of authenticity and the study of religion; Reworking the residue from our imperfect past; Methods, theories, and the terrors of history: closing the Eliadean era with some dignity; The perfect past and the irony of narrative: Bruce Lincoln's Theorizing Myth; ~Religion~ and the citizen's unrequited desires: chips from the religion industry's workshop; ~Religion~ and the governable self; Afterword; References; Index
520    The Discipline of Religion is a lively critical journey through religious studies today, looking at its recent growth as an academic discipline, and its contemporary political and social meaning.
546    English
504    Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-311) and index.
650  0 Religion |xStudy and teaching.
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