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Fabricating Origins

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Fabricating Origins builds on a series of posts that originally appeared, in earlier forms, on the blog "Culture on the Edge." In these posts each member of the group focused on the problem of origins, examining how we repeatedly conjure up an authorized past that suits the needs of the continually changing present. Fabricating Origins presses these short studies further by inviting ten early career scholars to each work with "Culture on the Edge" by applying, extending, even critiquing the group, to further illustrate for readers how talk of origins in the present is so much more interesting than being preoccupied with long past origins themselves. The volume, like all books in the Working with Culture on the Edge series, is introduced and concluded by original, theoretically challenging but engaging essays. It provides a selection of ten main articles which draw on a variety of examples to make the case, followed by original commentaries on each, all of which are pithy but substantive. Although not a textbook, and while challenging for any reader unaccustomed to making the switch from origins to the discourse on origins, Fabricating Origins is especially aimed at the early career reader. The volume therefore includes an annotated set of suggested readings on how to rethink origins as the product of contemporary and always tactically useful talk and action.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-05-28
Mått140 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt337 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWorking with Culture on the Edge
Antal sidor120
FörlagEquinox Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781781791745

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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 Midnight in the Study of Origins Russell T. McCutcheon Buying Origins 1. Our Sofas, Ourselves Leslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University 2. Our Stuff, Our Stories Kat Daley Bailey, University of Georgia Techniques of Then and Now 3. When the Stakes Are High Vaia Touna, University of Alberta 4.High Stakes on the High Court Mike Graziano, Florida State University Pick a Past, Any Past 5. The Politics of Choice Craig Martin, St Thomas Aquinas College 6. The Origins Games Karen de Vries, University of California, Santa Cruz Selling Identities 7. One Coffee Bean at a Time Monica Miller, Lehigh University 8. Marketing Christian Roots Steffen Fuhrding, Leibniz University We Are What We Choose to Recall 9. Remember the Ala-what-now? K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama 10. We Are What Archive Elonda Clay, Philander Smith College Constituting and Contesting the Nation 11. Patricide and the Nation Steven Ramey, University of Alabama 12. Our Disparate Fathers Alexis Glenn, Brown University Knowing When Not to Laugh 13. Searching for Chimaeras Vaia Touna 14. "A Joke's a Very Serious Thing" Tara Baldrick-Morrone, Florida State University The Good Old Days 15. The Way We Were? K. Merinda Simmons 16. The Way We Worked James Dennis LoRusso, Emory University A Little Ambiguity Goes a Long Way 17. Coloring Columbus Leslie Dorrough Smith 18. Tracing the Visible and Invisible Martha L. Smith Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara A Genealogy of the Past 19. Writing a History of Origins Russell T. McCutcheon 20. Competing Christs Brad Stoddard, Florida State University Afterword Origins Today Russell T. McCutcheon

"On the surface, the book appears more cultural studies than religious studies, but this is in fact the book's greatest strength: the essays force us not only to recognize the pervasiveness of origins narratives, but also to consider how intertwined religion is with other social institutions. These essays could be useful for triggering discussions about origins in undergraduate classrooms." --Zeba A. Crook, Carleton University, Religious Studies Review 42.4 (December 2016)

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