Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are the history of religions as a discipline; Mircea Eliade, one of the founders of the modern discipline; modern scholarship on Eliade's life and politics; contemporary textbooks on world religions; and the oft-repeated bromide that religion is a sui generis phenomenon.
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