Timothy Fitzgerald
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 529178 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Timothy Fitzgerald |
| NOMBRES | Timothy |
| APELLIDO | Fitzgerald |
| FIRMA | FITZGERALD T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8586-6895 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 152 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Work-Able Solutions
The National Clinical Programme for Rheumatology pilot project Work-Able Solutions is an integrated care occupational therapy vocational rehabilitation service for people with musculoskeletal disorders and arthritis. Funded by the Sláintecare Integration Innovation Fund (2022) this pilot is delivering services across Dublin South, Wicklow, Kildare, and Waterford until December 2024. Two sites are based in the acute hospital setting (St Vincent’s …
Regulatory capture in a resource boom
“What is critical religion?” A Response to Galen Watts and Sharday Mosurinjohn, “Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules?”
The authors should be congratulated for writing about ‘critical religion’. Whatever else critical religion might or might not be, nothing could be more important than a critical inquiry into the categories that powerfully organise our knowledge and our institutions, including our universities. By publishing in a major journal, the JAAR , they bring into the mainstream significant topics that are habitually marginalised. They raise many valid poin…
The Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt
Journal Article The Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt: From the Seventh to the Twelfth Century By Yaacov Lev Get access The Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt: From the Seventh to the Twelfth CenturyBy Yaacov Lev (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture), viii + 301 pp. Price PB £19.99. EAN 978–1474459242. Timothy J Fitzgerald Timothy J Fitzgerald James Madison Uni…
Japan, Religion, History, Nation
I connect the invention of Japanese 'religion' since the Meiji era (1868-1912) with the invention of other modern imaginaries, particularly the Japanese Nation State and Japanese History. The invention of these powerful fictions in Japan was a specific, localised example of a global process. The real significance of this idea that religion has always existed in all times and places is that it normalises the idea of the non-religious secular as th…
Understanding productivity effects of hydraulic fracturing in unconventional natural gas deposits and implications for adoption in the developing world
Hydraulic fracturing (HF) has transformed the North American oil and gas industry, leading to increased consumer surplus and reduced carbon emissions. While HF may have similar potential for the developing world, adoption has been limited to date, plausibly because of perceptions of potential local costs and the need to develop technical proficiency. We empirically evaluate the incremental contribution of HF in the United States. We find consider…
A critical view of the anthropology of religion
Anthropologists who write textbooks or teach undergraduate courses on the topic of 'religion' ought to be more aware of the tradition of critique by religious studies academics of their shared central category. There is a large and growing literature on the modern invention of religion and religions since the colonial era, and the radical shifts in meaning that have occurred in English and other europhone vernaculars since the 17th century. This …
The Ideology of Religious Studies Then and Now
I have found it challenging and productive to revisit The Ideology of Religious Studies (IRS) twenty years after its publication. This article outlines the background to, and motivations for, writing IRS. IRS contains various arguments aimed against a complex target: liberal capitalism and agencies that serve to normalise its precepts and practices, particularly religious studies and the social sciences more widely. IRS was an early stage in a lo…
Religion, Politics, History, and Culture
In his critique of my 2007 monograph Discourse on Civility and Barbarity: a Critical History of Religion and Related Categories , Daniel Miller attributes me with the error of transcendental historicism and an illusion of cultural authenticity . Miller’s challenge leads me to the question ‘what is history?’—what does it mean to be ‘in history’, or to be ‘out of history’, or to be a ‘historical agent’? I also defend myself against the charge of cu…
Pathologic Complete Response (pCR) and Survival of Women with Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
In this US-based study of the National Cancer Database (NCDB), we examined 8550 patients diagnosed with non-metastatic, invasive inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) who received surgery from 2004−2013. Patients were grouped into four biologic subtypes (HR+/HER 2 - , HR+/HER 2+ , HR - /HER 2+ , HR - /HER 2 - ). On average, women were 56 years of age at diagnosis and were followed for a median of 3.7 years. The majority were white (80%), had private h…
A History of the ‘Alawis
Stefan Winter has written a sweeping and highly original survey of ‘Alawi history in what is today Syria, Lebanon and southern Turkey. The ‘Alawis, a deep-rooted religious minority in the region, have aroused added interest of late, given the grim course of the Syrian Civil War, now in its eighth year. Though Winter ends his survey in the late 1930s and thus does not specifically address the rise of ‘Alawi power in contemporary Syria, the book of…
Murder in Aleppo
This study investigates the spectacular communal murder of a leading Ottoman official in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. This murder, and Istanbul’s vigorous response, erupted over a decade after Sultan Selim’s defeat of the Mamluk Sultanate in 1516–17, suggesting Aleppo’s incorporation into the Ottoman Empire was not as seamless as is often assumed. Indeed, close examination, using sources that reflect a mix of perspectives, reveals an exten…
Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty
Religious-secular distinctions have been crucial to the way in which modern governments have rationalised their governance and marked out their sovereignty – as crucial as the territorial boundaries that they have drawn around nations. The authors of this volume provide a multi-dimensional picture of how the category of religion has served the ends of modern government. They draw on perspectives from history, anthropology, moral philosophy, theol…
Religion as a category of governance and sovereignty
Critical religion and critical research on religion
The purpose of this response piece is to summarize what is meant by "critical religion" as a contribution to the ongoing debates within the discipline, and specifically in relation to critical research on religion
Religion and the Secular
Religion and the Secular
Introduction Timothy Fitzgerald 1. Dialectics of Conversion: Las Casas and Maya Colonial and Post-colonial Congregacion Anna Blume, (SUNY College of Visual Arts) 2. The Higher Ground: The Secular Knowledge of Objects of Religious Devotion Trevor Stack (University of Aberdeen) 3. The Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act in the Context of the Colonisation of the Indigenous People of Alaska James Cox, (University of Edinburgh) 4. State Shinto, Weste…
A Response to Kevin Schilbrack
Kevin Schilbrack has pointed out that in my publications over a period from 1994 to 2007 there are some discrepancies in my arguments about some categories, especially “politics” and “culture.” In some earlier research on Dalits and Buddhists in Maharashtra I could not locate “religion,” so I attempted, unsuccessfully, to develop a tripartite conceptual substitution for “religion”—ritual, politics and soteriology—for purposes of description and a…
A Response to Steven Engler, “ ‘Religion,’ ‘the Secular’ and the Critical Study of Religion”
Experiences deemed religious
Ann Taves has written an interesting, lucid and informative book. In particular, the author's suggested reformulation of religious studies as the study of "things deemed special" indicates a critical alternative to the dominant discourse. But such a reformulation implies that the 'secular' side of the mutually parasitic religion‐secular binary also requires deconstruction. This in turn must surely lead to a critique of the representation of socia…
Postsynaptic action of Gaba in modulating sensory transmission in co‐cultures of rat carotid body via Gaba A receptors
GABA is expressed in carotid body (CB) chemoreceptor type I cells and has previously been reported to modulate sensory transmission via presynaptic GABA B receptors. Because low doses of clinically important GABA A receptor (GABA A R) agonists, e.g. benzodiazepines, have been reported to depress afferent CB responses to hypoxia, we investigated the potential contribution of GABA A R in co‐cultures of rat type I cells and sensory petrosal neurones…
Benson Saler
(2009). Benson Saler: ‘Conceptualizing religion: Some recent reflections’: A response. Religion: Vol. 39, Perspectives on Religion in Western Europe, pp. 194-197
Discourse on Civility and Barbarity
This book analyzes the development of different meanings of the term “religion” in different contexts and in relation to other categories with shifting and unstable nuances such as the state, politics, economics, and the secular. It traces a major transformation of the category as a function of Euro‐American colonialism and capitalism from its traditional meaning of Christian Truth to the modern generic and pluralized category of religions and wo…
Theology, Religious Studies and the Secular Academy
The debates among academics over whether Religious Studies belongs within Faculties of Theology, the Social Sciences or The Humanities is a distraction from a more fundamental issue, which is the pervasive and largely unquestioned assumption that religious experiences, practices and institutions are universally distinct in kind and essentially separate from non-religious ones. Theologians and non-theologians alike have contributed to constructing…
A case of misrepresentation
A PhD student1 in our department who has a background in classical studies and is now researching the use of the World Wide Web by pagan groups was the first to see this survey on religious studies in Scotland. She felt worried at the time by the way the article misrepresented what we did at Stirling. Coming from another country to do postgraduate studies in religion here, she felt people in her country reading this journal would be given a false…
A critique of "religion" as a cross-cultural category1
This article has three related purposes. One is to argue the inadequacy of the concept of religion as an analytical concept. I point to vagueness and imprecision in the use of the notion of religion in religious studies texts and I also refer to my own research in India and Japan to substantiate my claim that religion is virtually useless as a cross-cultural analytical concept. The second purpose is to suggest ways of representing and re-represen…
Hinduism and the 'World Religion' fallacy
The present argument is (1) that a broadly sociological approach to Indian religion is more fruitful analytically than the 'World Religion' approach; (2) that the conception of Hinduism as a World Religion is highly artificial, and has been created by some theological needs; (3) that the case of Hinduism highlights more general problems with the notion of the World Religions. The implication of this argument is that the World Religion approach, w…
Critical religion and critical research on religion
The purpose of this response piece is to summarize what is meant by "critical religion" as a contribution to the ongoing debates within the discipline, and specifically in relation to critical research on religion
Playing Language Games and Performing Rituals
The Wittgensteinian philosophy of language games in the service of "religion" is circular and closed from criticism, and this generates the illusion that "religion" is compellingly universal. Also some historians, while attempting to uncover the specific and localized origins of the modern category "religion" in early modern Europe, simultaneously and unwittingly reconstruct the assumed universality of the category by uncritically using the probl…
Religion, Philosophy and Family Resemblances
Wittgenstein's concept of family resemblances has been adopted by some writers either to explain the use of the word 'religion' or to advocate a use in the context of a definition. The purpose of this definition is supposedly to avoid an essentialist definition of religion such as 'belief in God or gods' which is seen as too parochially tied to Judaeo-Christian theistic origins of the word, while at the same time guaranteeing a distinctive role f…
From structure to substance
Dumont has been criticised by writers such as Appadurai, Dirks and Inden for placing caste at the centre of his analysis of Hindu ideology, and arguing for the subordination of power to ritual status in India. This formulation is supposedly orientalist. In this article I reject the accusation that Dumont is guilty of orientalism, and I suggest that the case of B. R. Ambedkar and the Buddhist/Dalit movement which he initiated gives some support to…
Japanese religion as ritual order
It is argued in this paper that beneath the superficial analysis of Japanese ‘religions’ such as Buddhism, Shinto, Confucianism and the New Religions, there is one dominant ideological complex which, following some Japanese scholars, can conveniently be dubbed ‘The Japanese Religion’ or Nihonkyo. This Japanese religion is a ritual order based on the hierarchical concept of ‘ie’ and its variations such as ‘kigyoushugi‘1 at the level of the company…
A Response to Kevin Schilbrack
Kevin Schilbrack has pointed out that in my publications over a period from 1994 to 2007 there are some discrepancies in my arguments about some categories, especially “politics” and “culture.” In some earlier research on Dalits and Buddhists in Maharashtra I could not locate “religion,” so I attempted, unsuccessfully, to develop a tripartite conceptual substitution for “religion”—ritual, politics and soteriology—for purposes of description and a…
Ambedkar Buddhism in Maharashtra
My purpose in this paper is to present an ethnography of a specific untouchable conversion movement in such a way that it clarifies theoretical issues relevant to understanding this kind of phenomenon more widely. It is therefore a contribution, however small, both to research on Buddhism in Maharashtra and also to the wider issues of untouchability and politics in India. There are many cases of untouchable castes converting to Islam or Christian…
Experiences deemed religious
Ann Taves has written an interesting, lucid and informative book. In particular, the author's suggested reformulation of religious studies as the study of "things deemed special" indicates a critical alternative to the dominant discourse. But such a reformulation implies that the 'secular' side of the mutually parasitic religion‐secular binary also requires deconstruction. This in turn must surely lead to a critique of the representation of socia…
Religion, Politics, History, and Culture
In his critique of my 2007 monograph Discourse on Civility and Barbarity: a Critical History of Religion and Related Categories , Daniel Miller attributes me with the error of transcendental historicism and an illusion of cultural authenticity . Miller’s challenge leads me to the question ‘what is history?’—what does it mean to be ‘in history’, or to be ‘out of history’, or to be a ‘historical agent’? I also defend myself against the charge of cu…
Murder in Aleppo
This study investigates the spectacular communal murder of a leading Ottoman official in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. This murder, and Istanbul’s vigorous response, erupted over a decade after Sultan Selim’s defeat of the Mamluk Sultanate in 1516–17, suggesting Aleppo’s incorporation into the Ottoman Empire was not as seamless as is often assumed. Indeed, close examination, using sources that reflect a mix of perspectives, reveals an exten…
A Response to Steven Engler, “ ‘Religion,’ ‘the Secular’ and the Critical Study of Religion”
Theology, Religious Studies and the Secular Academy
The debates among academics over whether Religious Studies belongs within Faculties of Theology, the Social Sciences or The Humanities is a distraction from a more fundamental issue, which is the pervasive and largely unquestioned assumption that religious experiences, practices and institutions are universally distinct in kind and essentially separate from non-religious ones. Theologians and non-theologians alike have contributed to constructing…
Herbert Spencer's Agnosticism
In First Principles , Spencer attempted to construct a metaphysical system which synthesized all available knowledge into a single world-view. One major aspect of his task was to integrate Religion and Science. However, there is no single metaphysical system or structure unifying Spencer's thought, and my aim in this article is to identify the various different models of reality which he confuses. Spencer inherited these different, over-arching c…
Mansel's Agnosticism
Nobody is likely to claim that the name of Henry Longueville Mansel is an important one in contemporary Anglican theology. During the 130 years since he gave his Bampton Lectures in 1858 his work has been only sporadically reviewed. But he deserves more than this. As the title of his lecture – The Limits of Religious Thought – suggests, Mansel was partly responsible for bringing the philosophy of Kant into British religious thinking; and the prob…
Hinduism and the 'World Religion' fallacy
The present argument is (1) that a broadly sociological approach to Indian religion is more fruitful analytically than the 'World Religion' approach; (2) that the conception of Hinduism as a World Religion is highly artificial, and has been created by some theological needs; (3) that the case of Hinduism highlights more general problems with the notion of the World Religions. The implication of this argument is that the World Religion approach, w…
Krishnamurti and the myth of god incarnate [1]
(1991). Krishnamurti and the myth of god incarnate. Asian Philosophy: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 109-126
Japanese religion as ritual order
It is argued in this paper that beneath the superficial analysis of Japanese ‘religions’ such as Buddhism, Shinto, Confucianism and the New Religions, there is one dominant ideological complex which, following some Japanese scholars, can conveniently be dubbed ‘The Japanese Religion’ or Nihonkyo. This Japanese religion is a ritual order based on the hierarchical concept of ‘ie’ and its variations such as ‘kigyoushugi‘1 at the level of the company…
Religion, Philosophy and Family Resemblances
Wittgenstein's concept of family resemblances has been adopted by some writers either to explain the use of the word 'religion' or to advocate a use in the context of a definition. The purpose of this definition is supposedly to avoid an essentialist definition of religion such as 'belief in God or gods' which is seen as too parochially tied to Judaeo-Christian theistic origins of the word, while at the same time guaranteeing a distinctive role f…
From structure to substance
Dumont has been criticised by writers such as Appadurai, Dirks and Inden for placing caste at the centre of his analysis of Hindu ideology, and arguing for the subordination of power to ritual status in India. This formulation is supposedly orientalist. In this article I reject the accusation that Dumont is guilty of orientalism, and I suggest that the case of B. R. Ambedkar and the Buddhist/Dalit movement which he initiated gives some support to…
A critique of "religion" as a cross-cultural category1
This article has three related purposes. One is to argue the inadequacy of the concept of religion as an analytical concept. I point to vagueness and imprecision in the use of the notion of religion in religious studies texts and I also refer to my own research in India and Japan to substantiate my claim that religion is virtually useless as a cross-cultural analytical concept. The second purpose is to suggest ways of representing and re-represen…
Ambedkar Buddhism in Maharashtra
My purpose in this paper is to present an ethnography of a specific untouchable conversion movement in such a way that it clarifies theoretical issues relevant to understanding this kind of phenomenon more widely. It is therefore a contribution, however small, both to research on Buddhism in Maharashtra and also to the wider issues of untouchability and politics in India. There are many cases of untouchable castes converting to Islam or Christian…
The Ideology of Religious Studies
This book argues that ‘religion’ is not a genuine analytical category since it does no useful work in helping us to understand the world we live in. While it appears to have something important and meaningful to say about societies and cultures and personal experiences, when one looks at its actual use in a wide spectrum of descriptives and analytical contexts it becomes clear that so much is included in the term that it becomes indistinguishable…
Russell T. McCutcheon's manufacturing religion
(2000). Russell T. McCutcheon's manufacturing religion. Culture and Religion: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 99-104
Problematising discourses on religion
Playing Language Games and Performing Rituals
The Wittgensteinian philosophy of language games in the service of "religion" is circular and closed from criticism, and this generates the illusion that "religion" is compellingly universal. Also some historians, while attempting to uncover the specific and localized origins of the modern category "religion" in early modern Europe, simultaneously and unwittingly reconstruct the assumed universality of the category by uncritically using the probl…
Theology, Religious Studies and the Secular Academy
The debates among academics over whether Religious Studies belongs within Faculties of Theology, the Social Sciences or The Humanities is a distraction from a more fundamental issue, which is the pervasive and largely unquestioned assumption that religious experiences, practices and institutions are universally distinct in kind and essentially separate from non-religious ones. Theologians and non-theologians alike have contributed to constructing…
A case of misrepresentation
A PhD student1 in our department who has a background in classical studies and is now researching the use of the World Wide Web by pagan groups was the first to see this survey on religious studies in Scotland. She felt worried at the time by the way the article misrepresented what we did at Stirling. Coming from another country to do postgraduate studies in religion here, she felt people in her country reading this journal would be given a false…
Discourse on Civility and Barbarity
This book analyzes the development of different meanings of the term “religion” in different contexts and in relation to other categories with shifting and unstable nuances such as the state, politics, economics, and the secular. It traces a major transformation of the category as a function of Euro‐American colonialism and capitalism from its traditional meaning of Christian Truth to the modern generic and pluralized category of religions and wo…
Postsynaptic action of Gaba in modulating sensory transmission in co‐cultures of rat carotid body via Gaba A receptors
GABA is expressed in carotid body (CB) chemoreceptor type I cells and has previously been reported to modulate sensory transmission via presynaptic GABA B receptors. Because low doses of clinically important GABA A receptor (GABA A R) agonists, e.g. benzodiazepines, have been reported to depress afferent CB responses to hypoxia, we investigated the potential contribution of GABA A R in co‐cultures of rat type I cells and sensory petrosal neurones…
Benson Saler
(2009). Benson Saler: ‘Conceptualizing religion: Some recent reflections’: A response. Religion: Vol. 39, Perspectives on Religion in Western Europe, pp. 194-197
Experiences deemed religious
Ann Taves has written an interesting, lucid and informative book. In particular, the author's suggested reformulation of religious studies as the study of "things deemed special" indicates a critical alternative to the dominant discourse. But such a reformulation implies that the 'secular' side of the mutually parasitic religion‐secular binary also requires deconstruction. This in turn must surely lead to a critique of the representation of socia…
A Response to Steven Engler, “ ‘Religion,’ ‘the Secular’ and the Critical Study of Religion”
A Response to Kevin Schilbrack
Kevin Schilbrack has pointed out that in my publications over a period from 1994 to 2007 there are some discrepancies in my arguments about some categories, especially “politics” and “culture.” In some earlier research on Dalits and Buddhists in Maharashtra I could not locate “religion,” so I attempted, unsuccessfully, to develop a tripartite conceptual substitution for “religion”—ritual, politics and soteriology—for purposes of description and a…
Religion and the Secular
Religion and the Secular
Introduction Timothy Fitzgerald 1. Dialectics of Conversion: Las Casas and Maya Colonial and Post-colonial Congregacion Anna Blume, (SUNY College of Visual Arts) 2. The Higher Ground: The Secular Knowledge of Objects of Religious Devotion Trevor Stack (University of Aberdeen) 3. The Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act in the Context of the Colonisation of the Indigenous People of Alaska James Cox, (University of Edinburgh) 4. State Shinto, Weste…
Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty
Religious-secular distinctions have been crucial to the way in which modern governments have rationalised their governance and marked out their sovereignty – as crucial as the territorial boundaries that they have drawn around nations. The authors of this volume provide a multi-dimensional picture of how the category of religion has served the ends of modern government. They draw on perspectives from history, anthropology, moral philosophy, theol…
Religion as a category of governance and sovereignty
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