Our Primary Expertise: A Future for the Study of Religion
Autor Russell T. McCutcheon Contribuţii de Aaron Hughes, Andie Alexanderen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2025 – vârsta ani
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781978843929
ISBN-10: 1978843925
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 1978843925
Pagini: 226
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Notă biografică
RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON is university research professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He is the author of many books, including Manufacturing Religion and Critics Not Caretakers, and is the editor of Teaching in the Study of Religion and Beyond and Religious Studies Beyond the Discipline.
Cuprins
Preface
Author's Notes on Sources
“And He Was Gone”: An Introduction
Part 1: Overview
1. Religious Studies: Wither and Why?
Part 2: Contributions
2. Introduction: Not Playing Favorites
“It’s a Lie. There’s No Truth in it! It’s a Sin!”: On the Limits of the Humanistic Study of Religion and the Costs of Saving Others from Themselves
3. Introduction: Complicating Not Simplifying
“And That’s Why No One Takes the Humanities Seriously”
4. Introduction: Scrutinizing Structures
The Gatekeeping Rhetoric of Collegiality in the Study of Religion
Co-authored With Aaron W. Hughes
5. Introduction: Practicing Self-Reflexivity
Scholars Are People Too: The (Sometimes) Difficult Shift to the Discourse of Crisis
6. Introduction: Redescribing Claims
The Situated Nature of “I’m Spiritual but Not Religious” Claims
Co-authored With Andie Alexander
7. Introduction: Relevance through Generalization
Redescribing Our Primary Expertise or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities
Afterword
Postscript: "Whereof What's Past Is Prologue" ; On the Current State of U.S Higher Ed
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Index
Author's Notes on Sources
“And He Was Gone”: An Introduction
Part 1: Overview
1. Religious Studies: Wither and Why?
Part 2: Contributions
2. Introduction: Not Playing Favorites
“It’s a Lie. There’s No Truth in it! It’s a Sin!”: On the Limits of the Humanistic Study of Religion and the Costs of Saving Others from Themselves
3. Introduction: Complicating Not Simplifying
“And That’s Why No One Takes the Humanities Seriously”
4. Introduction: Scrutinizing Structures
The Gatekeeping Rhetoric of Collegiality in the Study of Religion
Co-authored With Aaron W. Hughes
5. Introduction: Practicing Self-Reflexivity
Scholars Are People Too: The (Sometimes) Difficult Shift to the Discourse of Crisis
6. Introduction: Redescribing Claims
The Situated Nature of “I’m Spiritual but Not Religious” Claims
Co-authored With Andie Alexander
7. Introduction: Relevance through Generalization
Redescribing Our Primary Expertise or, In Praise of Promiscuous Curiosities
Afterword
Postscript: "Whereof What's Past Is Prologue" ; On the Current State of U.S Higher Ed
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Index
Recenzii
"Timely, fascinating, intriguing."
"McCutcheon's is the voice of an optimistic critic who does more than genuflect toward dialogue and change. He reminds us that our field is a set of ideas and of institutions lodged within the humanities, that our methodologies must be useful beyond our discipline, and that there is virtue in muddying the waters. The self-evident simply is not. McCutcheon invites us all to build anew the arguments—and actions—that define religious studies, liberal education, and higher education for tomorrow."
"One of its most relentless critics for over three decades, McCutcheon here offers counsel concerning the future of the academic study of religion, laying out a case for its ongoing relevance. McCutcheon argues that critically engaging with religion yields crucial insights and transferable skills that should appeal to parents, administrators, students, and scholars of religion alike."
"McCutcheon's is the voice of an optimistic critic who does more than genuflect toward dialogue and change. He reminds us that our field is a set of ideas and of institutions lodged within the humanities, that our methodologies must be useful beyond our discipline, and that there is virtue in muddying the waters. The self-evident simply is not. McCutcheon invites us all to build anew the arguments—and actions—that define religious studies, liberal education, and higher education for tomorrow."
"One of its most relentless critics for over three decades, McCutcheon here offers counsel concerning the future of the academic study of religion, laying out a case for its ongoing relevance. McCutcheon argues that critically engaging with religion yields crucial insights and transferable skills that should appeal to parents, administrators, students, and scholars of religion alike."
Descriere
Our Primary Expertise argues counter to the longstanding trend in the field by seeing religion as mundane and not unique, which means that the field’s research and teaching can have relevance all across human culture, and well beyond academia. Russell McCutcheon offers a timely argument by taking seriously threats to the humanities now happening all across higher education.