Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia

by Russell T. McCutcheon

Book Overview

In this new book, author 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; recent scholarship on Eliade's life and politics; contemporary textbooks on world religions; and the oft-repeated bromide that "religion" is a sui generis phenomenon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195166639
• ISBN13: 9780195166637
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.4"