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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
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| Pt. I | Redescribing Religion as Something Ordinary | |
| Ch. 1 | More Than a Shapeless Beast: Lumbering through the Academy with the Study of Religion | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Redescribing 'Religion' as Social Formation: Toward a Social Theory of Religion | 21 |
| Pt. II | Dispatches from the Theory Wars | |
| Ch. 3 | Writing a History of God: "Just the Same Game Wherever You Go" | 43 |
| Ch. 4 | Explaining the Sacred: Theorizing on Religion in the Late Twentieth Century | 57 |
| Ch. 5 | "We're All Stuck Somewhere": Taming Ethnocentrism and Transcultural Understandings | 73 |
| Ch. 6 | The Economics of Spiritual Luxury: The Glittering Lobby and the World's Parliament of Religions | 85 |
| Ch. 7 | "My Theory of the Brontosaurus ...": Postmodernism and "Theory" of Religion | 103 |
| Pt. III | Culture Critics and Caretakers | |
| Ch. 8 | A Default of Critical Intelligence? The Scholar of Religion as Public Intellectual | 125 |
| Ch. 9 | Talking Past Each Other: The Issue of Public Intellectuals Revisited | 145 |
| Pt. IV | Going Public: Teaching Theory | |
| Ch. 10 | Our "Special Promise" as Teachers: Scholars of Religion and the Politics of Tolerance | 155 |
| Ch. 11 | Redescribing "Religion and ..." Film: Teaching the Insider/Outsider Problem | 179 |
| Ch. 12 | Methods and Theories in the Classroom: Teaching the Study of Myths and Rituals | 201 |
| Ch. 13 | Theorizing in the Introductory Course: A Survey of Resources | 217 |
| Pt. V | Afterword | |
| Afterword | 239 | |
| References | 241 | |
| Index | 257 |
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HYKEEM JOHNSON
reviewed Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion on September 03, 2017
Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion
Despite being a bit of a rant and being slightly dated, this is generally a good book. McCutcheon's frustrations are helpful in historically narrating the trials and tribulations of the field of religious studies and in many cases remain relevant. I find the late chapters on film and creating an intro class unhelpful for contemporary classrooms and he misunderstands Carl Raschke, only citing one short essay (dated even for when McCutheon cites it) without attention to his large amount of published works. But all and all, I agree with much of what McCutheon has to say about theory, not just for religious studying but literary studies as well.
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