Critics Not Caretakers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critics Not Caretakers write by RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON. This book was released on 2023-11-24. Critics Not Caretakers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays argues that the study of religion must be rethought as an ordinary aspect of social, historical existence, a stance that makes the scholar of religion a critic of cultural and historical practices rather than a caretaker of religious tradition or a font of timeless wisdom and deep meaning.
Critics Not Caretakers
Critics Not Caretakers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critics Not Caretakers write by Russell T. McCutcheon. This book was released on 2023-11-30. Critics Not Caretakers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays collected together in Critics Not Caretakers argue that the study of religion must be rethought as an ordinary aspect of social, historical existence, a stance that makes the scholar of religion a critic of cultural and historical practices rather than a caretaker of religious tradition or a font of timeless wisdom and deep meaning. The book begins with several essays that outline the basis of an alternative, sociorhetorical approach to studying religion, before moving on to a series of discrete dispatches from the ongoing theory wars, each of which uses the work of such writers as Karen Armstrong, Walter Burkert, Benson Saler, and Jacob Neusner as a point of entry into wider theoretical issues of importance to the field’s future. The author then examines the socio-political role of this brand of critical scholarship—a role that differs dramatically from the type of sympathetic caretaking generally associated with scholars of religion who feel compelled to “go public.” Concluding the work is a consideration of how scholars as teachers can address issues of theory, method, and critical thinking in a variety of undergraduate classrooms—the location where they have always been publicly accountable intellectuals. The new edition of this still read and, for some, controversial book preserves the original essays but includes a new opening chapter and new introductory commentaries across all of the chapters to demonstrate how little the field has changed since the volume was first published in 2001. Accordingly, the book continues to provide a viable alternative for those wanting to take a more critical approach to the study of religion.
Latino and Muslim in America
Latino and Muslim in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Latino and Muslim in America write by Harold D. Morales. This book was released on 2018. Latino and Muslim in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The experience and mediation of race-religion -- The first wave: from Islam in Spain to the Alianza in New York -- The second wave: Spanish dawah to women, online and in Los Angeles -- Reversion stories: the form, content, and dissemination of a logic of return -- The 9/11 factor: Latino Muslims in the news -- Radicals: Latino Muslim hip hop and the "clash of civilizations thing"--The third wave: consolidations, reconfigurations and the 2016 news cycle
The Discipline of Religion
The Discipline of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Discipline of Religion write by Russell T. McCutcheon. This book was released on 2003-12-08. The Discipline of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 as a credible object of study. In the leap from disciplinary criticism to avowal of actual cosmic and moral meaning, schools of religious studies extend their powers far beyond universities and into the everyday lives of those outside, managing and curtailing specific types of speech and dissent.
The Religion of the Future
The Religion of the Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Religion of the Future write by Roberto Mangabeira Unger. This book was released on 2016-10-25. The Religion of the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new philosophy of religion for a secular world How can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us? These questions stand at the center of Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s The Religion of the Future: an argument for both spiritual and political revolution. It proposes the content of a religion that can survive without faith in a transcendent God or in life after death. According to this religion—the religion of the future—human beings can be more human by becoming more godlike, not just later, in another life or another time, but right now, on Earth and in their own lives. They can become more godlike without denying the irreparable flaws in the human condition: our mortality, groundlessness, and insatiability.
