The Ideology of Religious Studies: The Ideology of Religious Studies by Fitzgerald

The Ideology of Religious Studies: The Ideology of Religious Studies by Fitzgerald

In recent years there has been an intensifying debate within the religious studies community about the validity of religion as an analytical category. In this book Fitzgerald sides with those who argue that the concept of religion itself should be abandoned. On the basis of his own research in India and Japan, and through a detailed analysis of the use of religion in a wide range of scholarly texts, the author maintains that the comparative study of religion is really a form of liberal ecumenical theology. By pretending to be a science, religion significantly distorts socio-cultural analysis. He suggest, however, that religious studies can be re-represented in a way which opens up new and productive theoretical connections with anthropology and cultural and literary studies.

Fitzgerald's work ranks him as one of the most significant figures in the debate as to what is 'religious studies'* Gavin D'Costa, Theology *

Timothy Fitzgerald is Reader in Religion at the University of Stirling, UK. He is the author of The Ideology of Religious Studies (2000).

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ISBN 13	9780195167696
ISBN 10	0195167694
Title	The Ideology of Religious Studies: The Ideology of Religious Studies
Author	Fitzgerald
Series	The Ideology Of Religious Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2004-12-11
Number of pages	272
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