Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of ReligionCritics Not Caretakers argues that the study of religion must be rethought as an ordinary aspect of social, historical existence, a stance that makes the scholar of religion a critic of cultural practices rather than a caretaker of religious tradition or a font of timeless wisdom. From a general introduction written for a wide audience and a theoretical essay that outlines the basis of an alternative, socio-rhetorical approach to studying religion, the book moves on to a series of dispatches from the theory wars, each of which uses the work of such writers as Karen Armstrong, Walter Burkert, and Benson Saler as a point of entry into wider theoretical issues of importance to the field s future. The author then examines the socio-political role of this brand of critical scholarship a role that differs dramatically from the type of sympathetic caretaking generally associated with scholars of religion who feel compelled to go public. Concluding the work is a consideration of how scholars as teachers can address issues of theory and critical thinking in the undergraduate classroom. Written with verve, Critics Not Caretakers provides a viable alternative for all those dissatisfied with the covertly political, liberal humanist approach that currently dominates the study of religion. |
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More Than a Shapeless Beast Lumbering through the Academy with the Study of Religion | 3 |
Redescribing Religion as Social Formation Toward a Social Theory of Religion | 21 |
Dispatches from the Theory Wars | 41 |
Writing a History of God Just the Same Game Wherever You Go | 43 |
Explaining the Sacred Theorizing on Religion in the Late Twentieth Century | 57 |
Were All Stuck Somewhere Taming Ethnocentrism and Transcultural Understandings | 73 |
The Economics of Spiritual Luxury The Glittering Lobby and the Worlds Parliament of Religions | 85 |
My Theory of the Brontosaurus Postmodernism and Theory of Religion | 103 |
Going Public Teaching Theory | 153 |
Our Special Promise as Teachers Scholars of Religion and the Politics of Tolerance | 155 |
Redescribing Religion and Film Teaching the InsiderOutsider Problem | 179 |
Methods and Theories in the Classroom Teaching the Study of Myths and Rituals | 201 |
Theorizing in the Introductory Course A Survey of Resources | 217 |
Afterword | 237 |
Afterword | 239 |
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Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion Russell T. McCutcheon ªÁºÒ§Êèǹ¢Í§Ë¹Ñ§Ê×Í - 2012 |
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