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Russell T. McCutcheon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. His major publications include Manufacutring Religion (Oxford University Press, 1997), The Guide to the Study of Religion (Bloomsbury, 2000), Critics not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (State University of New York Press, 2001) and The Discipline of Religion: Structure, Meaning, Rhetoric (Routledge, 2003). His most recent book, co-authored with William Arnal, is The Sacred is the Profane: The Political Nature of 'Religion' (Oxford University Press, 2013).

• Preface Introduction: Apologia for an Obsession 1. Naming the Unnamable? Theological Language and the Academic Study of Religion (1990) 2. Ideology and the Problem of Naming: A Reply (1991) 3. Returning the Volley to William E Arnal (1998) 4. Of Strawmen and Humanists (1999) 5. A Brief Response from a Fortunate Man (2000) 6. Who Sets the Ground Rules? A Response to "Comparativism, Then and Now" (2000) 7. Artifacts Not Relics: A Response to "Missing Links in the Study of Religion" (2000) 8. Filling in the Cracks with Resin: A Reply to John Burris's "Text and Context in the Study of Religion" (2003) 9. A Few Words on the Temptation to Defend the Honor of a Text (2004) 10. Theorizing the Politics of "Religion": Rejoinder to Robert A. Segal (2005) 11. The Perils of Having Ones Cake and Eating it Too: Some Thoughts in Response (2005) 12. Theses on Professionalization (2007) 13. A Response to Prof. Robert Campany's "Chinese Religious History and its Implications for Writing 'Religion(s)" (2008) 14. "As it Was in the Beginning - ": The Modern Problem of the Ancient Self (2010) 15. A Direct Question Deserves a Direct Answer: A Reply to Atalia Omer's "Can a Critic Be a Caretaker too?" (2012) 16. Recovering the Human: A Tale of Nouns and Verbs (2012) 17. Three Dots and a Dash (2012) 18. The Sacred is the Profane (2013) Afterword and References