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First published in 1997, Manufacturing Religion was a controversial book because it critiqued a widely adopted style of scholarship that presumes that religion is utterly unique, inexplicable, and therefore able only to be interpreted by privileged scholars. Claiming religion to be sui generis (or self-caused), this approach has undisclosed practical effects--institutional and geo-political--at a variety of sites, from the types of textbooks commonly used in introductory classes to the way that political events are often represented in the mass media. Russell McCutcheon documented the ubiquity of this approach and showed how harmful it was
Updating its wide-ranging evidence and adding new chapters, this new edition demonstrates the impact of this critique while showing how little the field has generally moved in the past thirty years.
Contents
Introduction
1: The Manufacture of Religion
2: Ideological Strategies and the Politics of Nostalgia
3: Autonomy, Discourses, and Social Privilege
4: The Debate on the Autonomy of Eliade
5: The Poverty of Theory in the Classroom
6: The Imperial Dynamic and the Discourse on Sui Generis Religion
7: The Category "Religion" in Recent Publications-Again
Afterword: Thirty Years of Manufacturing Religion
Appendix: Theses on Making a Shift
