Over the course of a career of more than forty years, Jonathan Z. Smith was among the most import...

The essays collected together in Critics Not Caretakers argue that the study of religion must be ...

Waardenburg’s magisterial essay traces the rise and development of the academic study of reli...

In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship...

Widely used as a primer, a class text, or just a provocation to critical thinking, Studying Relig...

The essays collected together in Critics Not Caretakers argue that the study of religion must be ...

Drawing on their wide experience in the undergraduate classroom, the contributors address basic b...

Controversies over how to define the word "e;religion"e; have persisted for decades. It i...

Many regard religious experience as the essence of religion, arguing that narratives might be cre...

The Sacred Is the Profane collects nine essays by William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon that advan...

The study of religion encompasses ordinary human social practice and is not limited to the extrao...

In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship...