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Writing religion : the case for the critical study of religion / edited by Steven W. Ramey.

Contributor(s): Ramey, Steven Wesley [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xv, 246 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780817318727; 0817318720Subject(s): Religions | Religions -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 200 LOC classification: BL74 | .W75 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: writing, riting, and righting in the critical study of religion / Steven W. Ramey -- God save this honorable court: religion and civic discourse / Jonathan Z. Smith -- An early moment in the discourse of "terrorism": reflections on a tale from Marco Polo / Bruce Lincoln -- "A storm on the horizon": discomforting democracy and the feeling of fairness / Ann Pellegrini -- Fear of small numbers / Arjun Appadurai -- Developing a critical consciousness: feminist studies in religion / Judith Plaskow -- Religious practices and communal identity of Cochin Jews: models, metaphors, and methods of diasporic religious acculturation / Nathan Katz -- Regarding origin: beginnings, foundations, and the bicameral formation of the study of religion / Tomoko Masuzawa -- De-Judaizing Jesus: theological need and exegetical execution / Amy-Jill Levine -- How to theorize with a hammer, or, on the destruction and reconstruction of Islamic studies / Aaron W. Hughes -- Personal self-disclosure, religious studies pedagogy, and the skeptical mission of the public university / Martin S. Jaffee -- Afterword: reinventing the study of religion in Alabama / Russell T. McCutcheon.

"The First Decade of Aronov Lecturers at the University of Alabama."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index.

Introduction: writing, riting, and righting in the critical study of religion / Steven W. Ramey -- God save this honorable court: religion and civic discourse / Jonathan Z. Smith -- An early moment in the discourse of "terrorism": reflections on a tale from Marco Polo / Bruce Lincoln -- "A storm on the horizon": discomforting democracy and the feeling of fairness / Ann Pellegrini -- Fear of small numbers / Arjun Appadurai -- Developing a critical consciousness: feminist studies in religion / Judith Plaskow -- Religious practices and communal identity of Cochin Jews: models, metaphors, and methods of diasporic religious acculturation / Nathan Katz -- Regarding origin: beginnings, foundations, and the bicameral formation of the study of religion / Tomoko Masuzawa -- De-Judaizing Jesus: theological need and exegetical execution / Amy-Jill Levine -- How to theorize with a hammer, or, on the destruction and reconstruction of Islamic studies / Aaron W. Hughes -- Personal self-disclosure, religious studies pedagogy, and the skeptical mission of the public university / Martin S. Jaffee -- Afterword: reinventing the study of religion in Alabama / Russell T. McCutcheon.

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