Religion in Culture:Studies in Social Contest & Construction Edited by: Russell T. McCutcheon
This series is based on the assumption that those practices we commonly call religious are social practices that are inextricably embedded in various contingent, cultural worlds. Authors in this series therefore do not see the practices of religion occupying a socially or politically autonomous zone, as is the case for those who use “and” as the connector between “religion” and “culture”. Rather, the range of human performances that the category “religion” identifies can be demystified by translating them into fundamentally social terms; they should therefore be seen as ways of waging the ongoing contest between groups vying for influence and dominance in intra- and inter-cultural arenas. Although not limited to one historical period, cultural site, or methodological approach, each volume exemplifies the tactical contribution to be made to the human sciences by writers who refuse to study religion as irreducibly religious; instead, each author conceptualizes religion—as well as the history of scholarship on religion—as among the various arts de faire, or practices of every day life, upon which human communities routinely draw when defining and reproducing themselves in opposition to others.
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