Manufacturing Religion by McCutcheon, Russell T.;

The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia

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Kiadó OUP Oxford
Megjelenés dátuma 2003. május 22.

ISBN 9780195166637
Kötéstípus Puhakötés
Terjedelem272 oldal
Méret 153x239x15 mm
Súly 381 g
Nyelv angol
Illusztrációk 1 halftone

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0his provocative book offers a powerful critique of traditional religion scholarship, and particularly the oft-repeated bromide that "religion" is a sui generis phenomenon. McCutcheon skillfully analyses the ideological basis for and service of this claim, demonstrating that it has been used to render the field's object of study ahistorical, apolitical, fetishised, and sacrosanct. He considers a range of sites in the modern study of religion and uncovers at each point sui generis religion serving as a protective strategy that ultimately authorises socio-political program. On a larger scale, he contends, the study of religion as a historical category participates in a larger system of political domination and economic and cultural imperialism.

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In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are the History of Religions as a discipline; Mircea Eliade, one of the founders of the modern discipline; recent scholarship on Eliade's life and politics; contemporary textbooks on world religions; and the oft-repeated bromide that "religion" is a sui generis phenomenon. McCutcheon skillfully analyzes the ideological basis for and service of the sui generis argument, demonstrating that it has been used to constitute the field's object of study in a form that is ahistoric, apolitical, fetishized, and sacrosanct. As such, he charges, it has helped to create departments, jobs, and publication outlets for those who are comfortable with such a suspect construction, while establishing a disciplinary ethos of astounding theoretical naivete and a body of scholarship to match. Surveying the textbooks available for introductory courses in comparative religion, the author finds that they uniformly adopt the sui generis line and all that comes with it. As a result, he argues, they are not just uncritical (which helps keep them popular among the audiences for which they are intended, but badly disserve), but actively inhibit the emergence of critical perspectives and capacities. And on the geo-political scale, he contends, the study of religion as an ahistorical category participates in a larger system of political domination and economic and cultural imperialism.

It is heartening to witness, at least, a monograph-length publication on a lately much-talked-about yet in reality still vastly understudied subject, namely, academic discourse on religion and the role it has played in the construction of the object that is now taken for granted and-this too goes without saying-now as a reality: religion.