Our Primary Expertise argues counter to the longstanding trend in the field by seeing religion as mundane and not unique, which means that the field’s research and teaching can have relevance all across human culture, and well beyond academia. Russell McCutcheon offers a timely argument by taking seriously threats to the humanities now happening all across higher education.
Our Primary Expertise argues counter to the longstanding trend in the field by seeing religion as mundane and not unique, which means that the field’s research and teaching can have relevance all across human culture, and well beyond academia. Russell McCutcheon offers a timely argument by taking seriously threats to the humanities now happening all across higher education.
RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON is university research professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He is the author of many books, including Manufacturing Religion and Critics Not Caretakers, and is the editor of Teaching in the Study of Religion and Beyond and Religious Studies Beyond the Discipline.
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Contents Preface Sources “And He Was Gone”: An Introduction Part I: Overview 1. Religious Studies: Wither and Why? Part II: Contributions 2. Introduction: Not Playing Favorites “It’s a Lie. There’s No Truth in it! It’s a Sin!”: On the Limits of the Humanistic Study of Religion and the Costs of Saving Others from Themselves 3. Introduction: Complicating Not Simplifying “And That’s Why No One Takes the Humanities Seriously” 4. Introduction: Scrutinizing Structures The Gatekeeping Rhetoric of Collegiality in the Study of Religion (co-authored with Aaron W. Hughes) 5. Introduction: Practicing Self-Reflexivity Scholars are People Too: The (Sometimes) Difficult Shift to the Discourse of Crisis 6. Introduction: Redescribing Claims The Situated Nature of “I’m Spiritual but Not Religious” Claims (co-authored with Andie Alexander) 7. Introduction: Relevance through Generalization Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities
Contents Preface Sources “And He Was Gone”: An Introduction Part I: Overview 1. Religious Studies: Wither and Why? Part II: Contributions 2. Introduction: Not Playing Favorites “It’s a Lie. There’s No Truth in it! It’s a Sin!”: On the Limits of the Humanistic Study of Religion and the Costs of Saving Others from Themselves 3. Introduction: Complicating Not Simplifying “And That’s Why No One Takes the Humanities Seriously” 4. Introduction: Scrutinizing Structures The Gatekeeping Rhetoric of Collegiality in the Study of Religion (co-authored with Aaron W. Hughes) 5. Introduction: Practicing Self-Reflexivity Scholars are People Too: The (Sometimes) Difficult Shift to the Discourse of Crisis 6. Introduction: Redescribing Claims The Situated Nature of “I’m Spiritual but Not Religious” Claims (co-authored with Andie Alexander) 7. Introduction: Relevance through Generalization Redescribing Our Primary Expertise Or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities
Afterword Appendix Acknowledgments Index
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