The Discipline of Religion: Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric

by Russell T. McCutcheon

The Discipline of Religion is a lively critical journey through religious studies today, looking at its recent growth as an academic discipline, and its contemporary political and social meanings. Focusing on the differences between religious belief and academic religious discourse, Russell T. McCutcheon argues that the invention of religion as a discipline blurs the distinction between criticism and doctrine in its assertion of the relevance of faith...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415274907
• ISBN13: 9780415274906
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"