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What Is Religion?

Aaron W. Hughes , Russell T. Mccutcheon

Controversies over how to define the word "religion" have persisted for decades. It is a term of art and of academic study, but also one of governance, technologies, and of networks; it is a concept whose diversity is often its own worst enemy. "Religion" is as much a...

Reading J. Z. Smith

Willi Braun , Russell T. Mccutcheon

Over the course of a career of more than forty years, Jonathan Z. Smith was among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion, distinguishing himself as perhaps the most influential theorist of religion of the last half...

The Sacred Is the Profane

William Arnal , Russell T. Mccutcheon

Manufacturing Religion

Russell T. Mccutcheon

In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are the History of Religions as a discipline; Mircea Eliade, one of the founders of the...