Irreverence and the Sacred brings together some of the most cutting edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today in order to debate key issues in the critical and comparative study of religion. The project is inspired in large part by the work of Bruce Lincoln, whose influential and wide-ranging scholarship has consistently posed challenging and often-irreverent questions that have pushed the boundaries of the field of religious studiesin important, sometimes controversial ways.
Irreverence and the Sacred brings together some of the most cutting edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today in order to debate key issues in the critical and comparative study of religion. The project is inspired in large part by the work of Bruce Lincoln, whose influential and wide-ranging scholarship has consistently posed challenging and often-irreverent questions that have pushed the boundaries of the field of religious studiesin important, sometimes controversial ways.
Hugh B. Urban is a professor of religious studies and South Asian studies in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of nine books, including The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion (2011) and Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement (2016). Greg Johnson is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Sacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition and co-editor of Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s) (2017).
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* Contributors * List of Images * Preface and Acknowledgements * INTRODUCTION * Destabilizing the Sacred: A Critical History of Religions * Hugh B. Urban and Greg Johnson * PART I. MYTH AND NARRATIVE * 1. (Mythical) Battles in Medieval Scandinavia: Battle Narratives and the * Construction of Society * Nicolas Meylan * 2. Myth, Third Rome, and the Uses of Ressentiment: An Essay in Myth Criticism * Ivan Strenski * 3. How the Arthashastra and the Kamasutra Got Away With Their Critiques of * Dharma * Wendy Doniger * 4. Authority Apart from Truth: Superhero Comic Book Stories as Myth * Kevin Wanner * 5. Myths and Utopias, Critics and Caretakers: In Defense of Revisionist History * Stefan Arvidsson * PART II. RITUAL AND PRACTICE * 6. Ritual, Advocacy, and Authority: The Challenge of Being an Irreverent Witness * Greg Johnson * 7. Death, Nationalism, and Sacrifice: Ritual, Violence, Politics, and Tourism in * Northeast India * Hugh B. Urban * 8. Becoming Zarathustra * Jean Kellens * PART III. GENDER AND SEXUALITY * 9. Where Men are Knights and Women are Princesses: Gender Ideology in Brazil's Valley of the Dawn * Kelly E. Hayes * 10. Straightening Out the Gods' Gender * Kathleen Self * 11. Norn, Vampire, Female Christ: Myth and Myth-Making in Sweden's First * Feminist Novel * Stefanie von Schnurbein * PART IV. POWER, POLITICS, AND THE POLITICS OF SCHOLARSHIP * 12. Historicizing the Elephant in the Room * Russell T. McCutcheon * 13. What is Religion? Between Christocentric Paradigm and Anthropological Relativism * Claude Calame * 14. Rereading Charlie Hebdo: Of Irreverence and Laïcité * S. Romi Mukherjee * Afterword: An Interview with Bruce Lincoln on Religion, Comparison, and the Politics of Scholarship * Index
* Contributors * List of Images * Preface and Acknowledgements * INTRODUCTION * Destabilizing the Sacred: A Critical History of Religions * Hugh B. Urban and Greg Johnson * PART I. MYTH AND NARRATIVE * 1. (Mythical) Battles in Medieval Scandinavia: Battle Narratives and the * Construction of Society * Nicolas Meylan * 2. Myth, Third Rome, and the Uses of Ressentiment: An Essay in Myth Criticism * Ivan Strenski * 3. How the Arthashastra and the Kamasutra Got Away With Their Critiques of * Dharma * Wendy Doniger * 4. Authority Apart from Truth: Superhero Comic Book Stories as Myth * Kevin Wanner * 5. Myths and Utopias, Critics and Caretakers: In Defense of Revisionist History * Stefan Arvidsson * PART II. RITUAL AND PRACTICE * 6. Ritual, Advocacy, and Authority: The Challenge of Being an Irreverent Witness * Greg Johnson * 7. Death, Nationalism, and Sacrifice: Ritual, Violence, Politics, and Tourism in * Northeast India * Hugh B. Urban * 8. Becoming Zarathustra * Jean Kellens * PART III. GENDER AND SEXUALITY * 9. Where Men are Knights and Women are Princesses: Gender Ideology in Brazil's Valley of the Dawn * Kelly E. Hayes * 10. Straightening Out the Gods' Gender * Kathleen Self * 11. Norn, Vampire, Female Christ: Myth and Myth-Making in Sweden's First * Feminist Novel * Stefanie von Schnurbein * PART IV. POWER, POLITICS, AND THE POLITICS OF SCHOLARSHIP * 12. Historicizing the Elephant in the Room * Russell T. McCutcheon * 13. What is Religion? Between Christocentric Paradigm and Anthropological Relativism * Claude Calame * 14. Rereading Charlie Hebdo: Of Irreverence and Laïcité * S. Romi Mukherjee * Afterword: An Interview with Bruce Lincoln on Religion, Comparison, and the Politics of Scholarship * Index
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