Russell Mccutcheon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell Mccutcheon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccutcheon |
| SIGNATURE | MCCUTCHEON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | 2Department of Religious Studies, University of Alabama |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
"Religion" in Theory and Practice: Demystifying the Field for Burgeoning Academics
“Religion” in Theory and Practice follows on from Russell T. McCutcheon’s book Entanglements: Marking Place in the Field of Religion (Equinox Publishing, 2014) by offering an overview of the current state of theory in the academic study of religion, and examining a variety of practical sites where critical scholarship is implemented but also challenged. Although addressed to early career scholars, this volume will also be of interest to anyone cu…
Clarifications: A Rejoinder
This short paper aims to respond to some of the observations and insights of the five reviewers of our book, The Sacred Is the Profane
Keeping "critical" critical: A conversation from Culture on the Edge
In early March 2014, some of the members of Culture on the Edge-a scholarly research collaboration of seven scholars of religion, interested in more theoretically sophisticated studies of identity, and all of whom are at different career stages and at a variety of North American institutions-had a conversation online on the use of the terms "critique" and "critical," terms widely used in the field today but employed in such a variety of ways that…
Naming the Unnameable? Theological Language and the Academic Study of Religion
This chapter is an introduction to the problem of naming. Students of religious studies would be wise to consider incorporating general inclusive theological language into their essay writing. Two specific articles about inclusive language find a mention. The first was on the general use of gender inclusive terminology within the academy, the second promoted the use of gender-neutral God-language. The chapter tries to answer the question, by what…
Strategies for Surviving Dissolution: Working with Gary Lease in the Academic Study of Religion
Gary Lease (1940-2008)
They Licked the Platter Clean: On the Co-Dependency of the Religious and The Secular
This paper argues that a methodological puzzle that stands in the way of those who critique the adequacy of a secularist perspective for studying religion is that the modern invention that goes by the name of secularism is the only means for imagining religion to exist as an item of discourse. Drawing on a variety of efforts to move beyond the limits of binary thinking—efforts that invariably function to reaffirm one or the other pole by imaginin…
Affinities, Benefits, and Costs: The Abcs of Good Scholars Gone Public
"Religion" and the Problem of the Governable Self; or How to Live in a Less than Perfect Nation
The category "religion"—along with the binary pairs that attend it (e.g., sacred/secular, Church/State, etc.)—deserves as much attention as has been devoted by scholars throughout the human sciences to the social and political roles played by other pairs, such as pure/impure, raw/cooked, male/female, and citizen/foreigner. Just as with these pairings, the church/state binary refers not to stable and separable zones of human practice, but is part …
Filling in the Cracks with Resin: "A Response to John Burris' "text and Context in the Study of Religion
I am grateful to the editors of MTSR for inviting a reply to John Burris' recent article (2003). Because David Chidester's Savage Systems (1996) was published after the manuscript for Manufacturing Religion (1997) had been submitted to the press in late-1995, I am pleased that Burris juxtaposes these two books, for I think that they have some important things in common, not least of which is the manner in which both squarely place the study of re…
Introduction: Richard King's Orientalism and Religion
The following three review essays were first read at the Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), August, 2000, in Durban, South Africa. The panel was organized because my former colleague and panelist, Jack Llewellyn, and I felt that Richard King's Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India, and 'The Mystic East' addressed some of the most crucial issues cur rently facing our field: the place of cr…
Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion
What Is Religion: Origins, Definitions, and Explanations
What is Religion? consists of fourteen essays written by a selection of scholars who represent a wide spectrum of approaches to the acedamic study of religion. Each of the essays is an effort not only to take stock of the present controversy concerning appropriate methodologies for the study of religion, but also to take one giant step beyond that to formulate a precise definition of religion. Given the considerable confusion today about what it …
The Category “Religion” in Recent Publications: A Critical Survey
L'A. etudie la categorie de la religion dans les publications recentes. Pour ce faire, il a selectionne dix ouvrages en date du debut des annees 90 et il les analyse conformement a sa problematique initiale. Celle-ci peut se formuler dans les questions suivantes : que prendre en compte comme religion ? Qui peut le decider ? Comment utiliser ce terme dans un occident qui subit l'heritage christianocentrique ? Quel est le role des ecoles qui etudie…
The Category “Religion” in Recent Publications: A Critical Survey
L'A. etudie la categorie de la religion dans les publications recentes. Pour ce faire, il a selectionne dix ouvrages en date du debut des annees 90 et il les analyse conformement a sa problematique initiale. Celle-ci peut se formuler dans les questions suivantes : que prendre en compte comme religion ? Qui peut le decider ? Comment utiliser ce terme dans un occident qui subit l'heritage christianocentrique ? Quel est le role des ecoles qui etudie…
Affinities, Benefits, and Costs: The Abcs of Good Scholars Gone Public
"Religion" and the Problem of the Governable Self; or How to Live in a Less than Perfect Nation
The category "religion"—along with the binary pairs that attend it (e.g., sacred/secular, Church/State, etc.)—deserves as much attention as has been devoted by scholars throughout the human sciences to the social and political roles played by other pairs, such as pure/impure, raw/cooked, male/female, and citizen/foreigner. Just as with these pairings, the church/state binary refers not to stable and separable zones of human practice, but is part …
Keeping "critical" critical: A conversation from Culture on the Edge
In early March 2014, some of the members of Culture on the Edge-a scholarly research collaboration of seven scholars of religion, interested in more theoretically sophisticated studies of identity, and all of whom are at different career stages and at a variety of North American institutions-had a conversation online on the use of the terms "critique" and "critical," terms widely used in the field today but employed in such a variety of ways that…
They Licked the Platter Clean: On the Co-Dependency of the Religious and The Secular
This paper argues that a methodological puzzle that stands in the way of those who critique the adequacy of a secularist perspective for studying religion is that the modern invention that goes by the name of secularism is the only means for imagining religion to exist as an item of discourse. Drawing on a variety of efforts to move beyond the limits of binary thinking—efforts that invariably function to reaffirm one or the other pole by imaginin…
Clarifications: A Rejoinder
This short paper aims to respond to some of the observations and insights of the five reviewers of our book, The Sacred Is the Profane
Filling in the Cracks with Resin: "A Response to John Burris' "text and Context in the Study of Religion
I am grateful to the editors of MTSR for inviting a reply to John Burris' recent article (2003). Because David Chidester's Savage Systems (1996) was published after the manuscript for Manufacturing Religion (1997) had been submitted to the press in late-1995, I am pleased that Burris juxtaposes these two books, for I think that they have some important things in common, not least of which is the manner in which both squarely place the study of re…
The Category “Religion” in Recent Publications: A Critical Survey
L'A. etudie la categorie de la religion dans les publications recentes. Pour ce faire, il a selectionne dix ouvrages en date du debut des annees 90 et il les analyse conformement a sa problematique initiale. Celle-ci peut se formuler dans les questions suivantes : que prendre en compte comme religion ? Qui peut le decider ? Comment utiliser ce terme dans un occident qui subit l'heritage christianocentrique ? Quel est le role des ecoles qui etudie…
What Is Religion: Origins, Definitions, and Explanations
What is Religion? consists of fourteen essays written by a selection of scholars who represent a wide spectrum of approaches to the acedamic study of religion. Each of the essays is an effort not only to take stock of the present controversy concerning appropriate methodologies for the study of religion, but also to take one giant step beyond that to formulate a precise definition of religion. Given the considerable confusion today about what it …
Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion
Introduction: Richard King's Orientalism and Religion
The following three review essays were first read at the Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), August, 2000, in Durban, South Africa. The panel was organized because my former colleague and panelist, Jack Llewellyn, and I felt that Richard King's Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India, and 'The Mystic East' addressed some of the most crucial issues cur rently facing our field: the place of cr…
Filling in the Cracks with Resin: "A Response to John Burris' "text and Context in the Study of Religion
I am grateful to the editors of MTSR for inviting a reply to John Burris' recent article (2003). Because David Chidester's Savage Systems (1996) was published after the manuscript for Manufacturing Religion (1997) had been submitted to the press in late-1995, I am pleased that Burris juxtaposes these two books, for I think that they have some important things in common, not least of which is the manner in which both squarely place the study of re…
"Religion" and the Problem of the Governable Self; or How to Live in a Less than Perfect Nation
The category "religion"—along with the binary pairs that attend it (e.g., sacred/secular, Church/State, etc.)—deserves as much attention as has been devoted by scholars throughout the human sciences to the social and political roles played by other pairs, such as pure/impure, raw/cooked, male/female, and citizen/foreigner. Just as with these pairings, the church/state binary refers not to stable and separable zones of human practice, but is part …
Affinities, Benefits, and Costs: The Abcs of Good Scholars Gone Public
They Licked the Platter Clean: On the Co-Dependency of the Religious and The Secular
This paper argues that a methodological puzzle that stands in the way of those who critique the adequacy of a secularist perspective for studying religion is that the modern invention that goes by the name of secularism is the only means for imagining religion to exist as an item of discourse. Drawing on a variety of efforts to move beyond the limits of binary thinking—efforts that invariably function to reaffirm one or the other pole by imaginin…
Strategies for Surviving Dissolution: Working with Gary Lease in the Academic Study of Religion
Gary Lease (1940-2008)
Naming the Unnameable? Theological Language and the Academic Study of Religion
This chapter is an introduction to the problem of naming. Students of religious studies would be wise to consider incorporating general inclusive theological language into their essay writing. Two specific articles about inclusive language find a mention. The first was on the general use of gender inclusive terminology within the academy, the second promoted the use of gender-neutral God-language. The chapter tries to answer the question, by what…
Keeping "critical" critical: A conversation from Culture on the Edge
In early March 2014, some of the members of Culture on the Edge-a scholarly research collaboration of seven scholars of religion, interested in more theoretically sophisticated studies of identity, and all of whom are at different career stages and at a variety of North American institutions-had a conversation online on the use of the terms "critique" and "critical," terms widely used in the field today but employed in such a variety of ways that…
Clarifications: A Rejoinder
This short paper aims to respond to some of the observations and insights of the five reviewers of our book, The Sacred Is the Profane
"Religion" in Theory and Practice: Demystifying the Field for Burgeoning Academics
“Religion” in Theory and Practice follows on from Russell T. McCutcheon’s book Entanglements: Marking Place in the Field of Religion (Equinox Publishing, 2014) by offering an overview of the current state of theory in the academic study of religion, and examining a variety of practical sites where critical scholarship is implemented but also challenged. Although addressed to early career scholars, this volume will also be of interest to anyone cu…
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