William Arnal, Russell T Mccutcheon

The Sacred Is the Profane

The Political Nature of Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

The Sacred is the Profane collects nine essays by William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon that advance current scholarly debates on secularism-debates. The essays return, again and again, to the question of what "religion"¿word and concept¿accomplishes, now, for those who employ it, whether at the popular, political, or scholarly level. The focus here is on the efficacy, costs, and the tactical work carried out by dividing the world between religious andpolitical, church and state, sacred and profane.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780199757121
• ISBN-10: 0199757127
• Artikelnr.: 35710147

Autorenporträt

WEA: Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Regina; RTM: Professor of Religious Studies, University of Alabama

Inhaltsangabe

* Sources
* Introduction: On the Persistence of Imagining Religion
* Chapter One: On the Definition of Religion
* Chapter Two: Words, Words, Wordbooks, Or Everything Old is New Again
* Chapter Three: Contemporary Reinventions of Religion: Disney and the
Academy
* Chapter Four: ''Just Follow the Money'': The Cold War, the Humanistic
Study of Religion, and the Fallacy of Insufficient Cynicism
* Chapter Five: Will Your Cognitive Anchor Hold in the Storms of
Culture?
* Chapter Six: Maps of Nothing in Particular: Religion as a
Cross-Cultural Taxon?
* Chapter Seven: ''They Licked the Platter Clean'': On the
Co-Dependency of the Religious and the Secular
* Chapter Eight: The Origins of Christianity Within, and Without,
''Religion'': An Exploration and Application
* Afterword
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index