The Discipline of Religion: Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric Book

	Preface: a dispatch from the provinces
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Form, content, and the treasury of devices	15
2	God's people defending their ivory towers: reassessing the study of religion's emergence in the U.S.	38
3	Autonomy, unity, and crisis: rhetoric and the invention of a discipline	54
4	Classification and the dog's breakfast: the American Academy of Religion's research interest survey	83
5	The good, the bad, and the ugly: looking past the violence of cults and fanatics	101
6	Alienation, apprenticeship, and the crisis of academic labor	127
7	"Like small bumps on the back of the neck...": the problem of evil as something ordinary	146
8	The jargon of authenticity and the study of religion	167
9	Methods, theories, and the terrors of history: closing the Eliadean era with some dignity	191
10	The perfect past and the irony of narrative: Bruce Lincoln's Theorizing Myth	213
11	"Religion" and the citizen's unrequited desires: chips from the religion industry's workshop	230
12	"Religion" and the governable self	252
	Afterword	291
	References	294
	Index	313