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).
Description
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.