Who Owns Religion?: Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century

by Laurie L. Patton

Who Owns Religion? focuses on a period--the late 1980s through the 1990s--when scholars of religion were accused of scandalizing or denigrating the very communities they had imagined themselves honoring through their work. While controversies involving scholarly claims about religion are nothing new, this period saw an increase in vitriol that remains with us today. Authors of seemingly arcane studies on subjects like the origins of the idea...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226649342
• ISBN13: 9780226649344
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages