Fabricating Identities

Russell T. McCutcheon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. His major publications include Manufacturing 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).

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Who Are You? I'm a Religious Studies ScholarK. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama2. Am I a Religious Studies Scholar?David Robertson, Independent Scholar3. Who Are You? I'm Wednesday's ChildCraig Martin, St Thomas Aquinas College4. Seeing the Forest and the TreesSarah Levine, Independent Scholar5. Who Are You? I'm GreekVaia Touna, University of Alabama6. You're Greek? Well..., I'm (Northern) Irish, Kind'a...Christopher R. Cotter, Lancaster University (PhD student)7. Who Are You? I'm a MiserSteven Ramey, University of Alabama8. Contesting Labels and the Study of ReligionAnja Kirsch, University of Basel9. Who Are You? I'm a Leg CrosserRussell T. McCutcheon10. Who Am I? Merely a PlayerCandace Mixon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (PhD student)11. Who Are You? I'm a FeministLeslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University12. Atheism and its ConsequencesIan Alexander Cuthbertson, Independent Scholar13. Who Are You? I'm a VegetarianSteven Ramey14. You Are What You EatSarah Dees, Independent Scholar15. Who Are You? I'm an Alabamian Russell T. McCutcheon16. Secrecy, Stories, and BoundariesEmily A. Schmidt, University of California, Santa Barbara (PhD student)17. Who Are You? I'm Vaia and I'm TounaVaia Touna18. "Naaaaaw you show me YOUR ID"Richard Newton, Elizabethtown College19. Who Are You? I'm a New Mom K. Merinda Simmons20. I'm a Soon-to-be DadJason Ellsworth, Dalhousie University (PhD student)21. Who Are You? I am/am not a McCutcheoniteCraig Martin22. I Know You Are, But What Am I?Stacie Swain, University of Ottawa (PhD student)23. Who Are You? I'm Short (... And Cute)Leslie Dorrough Smith24. I'm "Irish," Torontonian, ... French?Matt Sheedy, Independent ScholarAfterwordRussell McCutcheon