TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ramey,Steven W.
AU  - Trost,Theodore Louis
AU  - Jacobs,Steven Leonard
AU  - McCutcheon,Russell T.
AU  - Appadurai,Arjun
AU  - Hughes,Aaron W.
AU  - Jaffee,Martin S.
AU  - Katz,Nathan
AU  - Levine,Amy-Jill
AU  - Lincoln,Bruce
TI  - Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion
SN  - 9780817388386
AV  - BL74 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Foreword / Theodore Louis Trost and Steven Leonard Jacobs -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing, Riting, and Righting in the Critical Study of Religion / Steven W. Ramey -- I. Writing Discourses -- 1. God Save This Honorable Court: Religion and Civic Discourse / Jonathan Z. Smith -- 2. An Early Moment in the Discourse of "Terrorism": Reflections on a Tale from Marco Polo / Bruce Lincoln -- 3. "A Storm on the Horizon": Discomforting Democracy and the Feeling of Fairness / Ann Pellegrini -- II. Riting Social Formations -- 4. Fear of Small Numbers / Arjun Appadurai -- 5. Developing a Critical Consciousness: Feminist Studies in Religion / Judith Plaskow -- 6. Religious Practices and Communal Identity of Cochin Jews: Models, Metaphors, and Methods of Diasporic Religious Acculturation / Nathan Katz -- 7. Regarding Origin: Beginnings, Foundations, and the Bicameral Formation of the Study of Religion / Tomoko Masuzawa -- 8. De-Judaizing Jesus: Theological Need and Exegetical Execution / Amy-Jill Levine -- 9. How to Theorize with a Hammer, or, On the Destruction and Reconstruction of Islamic Studies / Aaron W. Hughes -- 10. 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 -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index
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