Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion by Russell T Mccutcheon

Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion by Russell T Mccutcheon

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Summary

The "insider/outsider problem" is a theoretical and methodological issue that confronts students of human behaviour and culture. This anthology collects 30 readings that investigate the ways in which scholars of religion have grappled with the relations between studying, practising and advocating.

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Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion by Russell T Mccutcheon

Thirty classic and contemporary readings - from such writers as Kant, Hume, Schleiermacher, and Otto, to Ninian Smart, Mircea Eliade, Karen McCarthy-Brown, and Wendy Doniger.
Russell T. McCutcheon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. His major publications include Manufacutring Religion (Oxford University Press, 1997), The Guide to the Study of Religion (Bloomsbury, 2000), Critics not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (State University of New York Press, 2001) and The Discipline of Religion: Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric (Routledge, 2003). His most recent book, co-authored with William Arnal, is The Sacred is the Profane: The Political Nature of 'Religion' (Oxford University Press, 2013).
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ISBN 13 9780304701780
ISBN 10 0304701785
Title Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion
Author Russell T Mccutcheon
Series Controversies In The Study Of Religion S
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 1998-01-12
Number of pages 448
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