Fabricating Identities - Russell T. McCutcheon

Fabricating Identities - Russell T. McCutcheon

Am I a Religious Studies Scholar?

Fabricating Identities - Russell T. McCutcheon

David G. Robertson [+-]
Open University / Religious Studies Project
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David G. Robertson is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University, co-founder of the Religious Studies Project, and co-editor of the journal Implicit Religion. His work applies critical theory to the study of alternative and emerging religions, and to “conspiracy theory” narratives. He is the author of UFOs, the New Age and Conspiracy Theories: Millennial Conspiracism (Bloomsbury 2016), co-editor of After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies (Equinox 2016) and the Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion (Brill 2018). Twitter: @d_g_robertson.

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As part of the Working With Culture on the Edge series, this volume pairs early career scholars with members of Culture on the Edge, to explore how social actors identify themselves through their practices and associations. The book is arranged in a series of articles and commentaries that all press the model of seeing what we usually call identity as the result of a series of identifications—actions and circumstances that enable us to understand ourselves as related to others in specific ways. Changing relations result in changing senses of identity. With an introduction and substantive theoretical afterword, the book’s brief main chapters make it an ideal conversation-started in classes or primer for those wishing to rethink how we normally talk about identity.

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Robertson, David. Am I a Religious Studies Scholar?. Fabricating Identities. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 13-19 Sep 2017. ISBN 9781781794975. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=30527. Date accessed: 26 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.30527. Sep 2017

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