Manufacturing Religion The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia
Produktdetaljer
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.
Culture and Religion, Volume 1, 2000
The author…belongs to a company of scholars who argue-get this! one is tempted to say-that the majority of religious studies teachers and writers are too devoted to the truth claims of religion… [T]he claims and practices of religious studies scholars demands scrutiny. But he has loaded his analysis with ideology and he writes mean-spiritedly.
The Christian Century
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.
Culture and Religion, Volume 1, 2000
The author…belongs to a company of scholars who argue-get this! one is tempted to say-that the majority of religious studies teachers and writers are too devoted to the truth claims of religion… [T]he claims and practices of religious studies scholars demands scrutiny. But he has loaded his analysis with ideology and he writes mean-spiritedly.
The Christian Century