Fabricating Origins - Russell T. McCutcheon

Fabricating Origins - Russell T. McCutcheon

Origins Today

Fabricating Origins - Russell T. McCutcheon

Russell T. McCutcheon [+-]
University of Alabama
Russell T. McCutcheon is University Research Professor and, for 18 years, was the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He has written on problems in the academic labor market throughout his 30-year career and helped to design and run Alabama’s skills-based M.A. in religion in culture. Among his recent work is the edited resource for instructors, Teaching in Religious Studies and Beyond (Bloomsbury 2024).

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What is origins today? I shall give at the outset a first, very simple answer: claims of origination are a form of speech or writing and, as such, they are acts in the present for social effect in that present situation’s imagined future.

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McCutcheon, Russell . Origins Today. Fabricating Origins. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 77-92 May 2015. ISBN 9781781791752. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=24343. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.24343. May 2015

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