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Whether intentionally or not much of our public discourse on religion involves a subtle, but incredibly powerful, distinction between "good" and "bad" religion. The implications of these labeling practices are far-reaching, indeed, for such judgments manifest in terms such as "fundamentalist," "radical," and "extremist," words that are often the gauge by which governments worldwide determine everything from the parameters of religious freedom, to what constitutes an act of terrorism, to whether certain groups receive legal protections. Conversely, it is often surprising to see how different groups that may otherwise better typify the extremist profile remain unscathed by punitive governmental or social measures because of their pre-existing social popularity or perceived normalcy. This volume argues that public inquiry into religion is guided by unspoken value judgments, which are themselves the products of rarely-discussed political interests. This volume opens with a critical introduction which lays out the nature of the issue and its practical ramifications. The following chapter demonstrates how one can analytically critique the good/bad religion rhetoric as it appears in scholarship today. Hijacked is then organized around four different social institutions through which these value judgments have been established and deployed - namely, within politics, the media, the university, and the classroom. After a short introduction by the editors, each section begins with a chapter that highlights a particular case study or example of this good/bad distinction at work. The three to four responses that follow extrapolate from some element of the exemplar to provide an analysis on how such rhetoric operates in that particular social realm.
Contents
Preface
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, and Adrian Hermann
Section 1: The Public Rhetoric of Good and Bad Religion
1. Introduction: "And What Kind of Society Does That Create?"
Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama
2. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Neo-Orientalism and the Study of Religion
Aaron W.Hughes, University of Rochester
3. Religious Studies and the Jargon of Authenticity
Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm, Williams College
Section 2: Politics
Introduction to the Politics Section
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, and Adrian Hermann
4. Toward a Critique of Postsecular Rhetoric
Naomi R. Goldenberg, University of Ottowa
5. The Political Utility of the Past: The Case of Greek Fire-Walking Rituals
VaiaTouna, University of Alabama
6. Privatized Publics and Scholarly Silos: Gender, Religion, and their Theoretical Fault Lines
K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama
7. What's Religious Freedom Got to Do With It? On the Niqab Affair in Canadian Politics
Matt Sheedy, University of Manitoba
Section 3: Media
Introduction to the Media Section
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, Adrian Hermann
8. The Strange and Familiar Spiritual Journey of Reza Aslan
Martha Smith Roberts, Denison University
9. The Journalist-Ethnographer, Religious Diversity, and the Euphemisation of Social Relations
Carmen Becker, Leibniz University Hannover
10. Scopophilia and the Manufacture of "Good" Religion
Leslie Dorrough Smith
11. Naturalizing the Transnational Capitalist Class: Reza Aslan's Believer and the Ideological Reproduction of an Emerging Social Formation
Craig Prentiss, Rockhurst University
12. Authentic Religion - Or, How To Be A Good Citizen
Steffen Führding
Section 4: University
Introduction to the University Section
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding, Adrian Hermann
13. 'Bad Religion' on the University Campus: "Political Correctness" and the Future of the Insider/Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion Adrian Hermann and Stefan Priester, University of Bonn
14. Studying Religion in a Post-Truth World
Stephanie Gripentrog, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
15. The Good, The Bad, and the Non-Religion: The Good/Bad Rhetoric in Non-Religion Studies
Christopher R. Cotter, University of Edinburgh
16. The Campus as a 'Safe Space'? A Sociology of Knowledge Perspective on the New Student Protests
David Kaldewey, University of Bonn
Section 5: Classroom
Introduction to the Classroom Section Leslie Dorrough Smith, Steffen Führding,
Adrian Hermann
17. What Teaching New Religions Tells Us about the Discourse on 'Good' and 'Bad' Religion
David G. Robertson, The Open University
18. Unintentionally Constructing 'Good' and 'Bad' Religions in Teaching Classical
European Social Theories at a Japanese University
Mitsutoshi Horii, Chaucer College
19. Good and Bad, Legitimate and Illegitimate Religion in Education
Wanda Alberts, Leibniz University Hannover
20. Benign Religion as Normal Religion Suzanne Owen, Leeds Trinity University
