Entanglements - Marking Place in the Field of Religion - Russell T. McCutcheon

Entanglements - Marking Place in the Field of Religion - Russell T. McCutcheon

Recovering the Human: A Tale of Nouns and Verbs: A Rejoinder to Ann Taves (2012)

Entanglements - Marking Place in the Field of Religion - 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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Entanglements attempts to argue against those who claim that scholarship on the category religion is only of secondary interest, in that it fails to do primary research on real religions. The volume collects eighteen responses, written across twenty years, that each exemplify the inevitably situated, give-and-take nature of all academic debate. These essays call into question the often used distinction between primary and secondary sources, between description and analysis. Published here in their original form, each contribution is accompanied by new, substantive introduction describing the context of each response and explaining how each shows something still at stake in the academic study of religion--whether its the rhetoric used to authorize competing scholarly claims or the difficulty involved in suspending our commonsense view of the world long enough to study the means by which we have come to see it that way. An ethnography of scholarly practice written mainly for earlier career readers--whether undergraduate or graduate students or even tenure-track faculty-- Entanglements tackles the notion that some scholarship is more pristine, and thus more valuable, than others, thereby modeling for scholars earlier in their careers some of the obstacles and arguments that may face them should their research interests be judged unorthodox.

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McCutcheon, Russell . Recovering the Human: A Tale of Nouns and Verbs: A Rejoinder to Ann Taves (2012). Entanglements - Marking Place in the Field of Religion. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 214-224 Mar 2014. ISBN 9781781790779. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=28509. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.28509. Mar 2014

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