Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (SUNY Series)

Russell T. McCutcheon

$33.95

Publication Date: March 29th, 2001

Publisher:

State University of New York Press

ISBN:

9780791449448

Pages:

296

Description

A lively critique of the study of religion in the modern academy, one that makes the scholar of religion a cultural critic rather than a caretaker of a religious tradition or a guru dispensing timeless wisdom.

About the Author

Russell T. McCutcheon is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He is the coeditor (with Willi Braun) of Guide to the Study of Religion, editor of The Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion: A Reader, and author of Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia.

Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (SUNY Series)

Description

About the Author

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