The ideology of religious studies:
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Main Author: Fitzgerald, Timothy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2000
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index
In recent years there has been an intensifying debate within the religious studies community about the validity of religion as an analytical category. In this book Fitzgerald sides with those who argue that the concept of religion itself should be abandoned. On the basis of his own research in India and Japan, and through a detailed analysis of the use of religion in a wide range of scholarly texts, the author maintains that the comparative study of religion is really a form of liberal ecumenical theology. By pretending to be a science, religion significantly distorts socio-cultural analysis. He suggest, however, that religious studies can be re-represented in a way which opens up new and productive theoretical connections with anthropology and cultural and literary studies
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 276 pages)
ISBN:0195120728
0195167694
1280534184
1423756789
9780195167696
9781280534188
9781423756781

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