{"product_id":"irreverence-and-the-sacred-critical-studies-in-the-history-of-religions-9780190911966","title":"Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions","description":"\u003cem\u003eIrreverence and the Sacred\u003c\/em\u003e brings together some of the most cutting edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today in order to debate key issues in the critical and comparative study of religion. The project is inspired in large part by the work of Bruce Lincoln, whose\u003cbr\u003einfluential and wide-ranging scholarship has consistently posed challenging, provocative, and often-irreverent questions that have really pushed the boundaries of the field of religious studies in important, sometimes controversial ways. Retracing the history of the discipline of religious studies, \u003cbr\u003eLincoln argues that the field has tended to champion a validating, feel-good approach to religion, rather than posing more critical questions about religious claims to authority and their role in history, politics, and social change. A critical approach to the history of religions, he suggests, \u003cbr\u003ewould focus on the human, temporal, and material aspects of phenomena that are claimed to have a superhuman, eternal, or transcendent status. This volume takes up Lincoln's challenge to do better, by engaging in critical analyses of four key themes in the study of religion: myth, ritual, gender, \u003cbr\u003eand politics. The book also interrogates the politics of scholarship itself, critically examining the relations of power and material interests at work in the study as well as the practice of religion. The scholars involved in this project include not only some of the most important figures in the\u003cbr\u003eAmerican study of religion--such as Wendy Doniger, Russell McCutcheon, Ivan Strenski, and Lincoln himself--but also European scholars whose work is hugely influential overseas but not as well known in the U.S.--such as Stefan Arvidsson, Claude Calame, Nicolas Meylan, and others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hugh Urban\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190911966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHugh B. Urban\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of religious studies and South Asian studies in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of nine books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion\u003c\/em\u003e (2011) and \u003cem\u003eZorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality and Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ein the Global Osho Movement \u003c\/em\u003e(2016). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGreg Johnson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eSacred Claims: Repatriation and Living Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eHandbook of Indigenous Religion(s)\u003c\/em\u003e (2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39929228001395,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":105.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_630c8ffe-ec94-4c58-bfed-4f7283857b8f.jpg?v=1647612061","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/irreverence-and-the-sacred-critical-studies-in-the-history-of-religions-9780190911966","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}