Readings in the Theory of Religion

Scott S. Elliott is Associate Professor in Philosophy, Religion at Adrian College, Michigan. Matthew Waggoner is Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Religion at Albertus Magnus College, Connecticut.

• General Introduction Part One: Map Preface by Matthew Waggoner 1. Wilfred Cantwell Smith, "Religion in the West" 2. Talal Asad, "Genealogies of Religion" 3. David Chidester, "Frontiers of Comparison" 4. George Fredrickson, "Religion and the Invention of Racism" 5. Jonathan Z. Smith, "Map is not Territory" Part Two: Text Preface by Gary Phillips 1. Walter Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator" 2. Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author" 3. Jonathan Z. Smith, "Sacred Persistence: Toward a Redescription of Canon" 4. Tomoko Masuzawa, "Original Lost: An Image of Myth and Ritual in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" 5. George Aichele, "The Imperial Bible". Part Three: Body Preface by Amy Hollywood 1. Saba Mahmood, "Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent" 2. Joan Wallach Scott, "Experience" 3. Daniel Boyarin and Elizabeth Castelli, "Introduction: Foucault's The History of Sexuality: The Fourth Volume, or, A Field Left Fallow for Others To Till" 4. Stephen Moore, "Sex and the Single Apostle" 5. Daniel Boyarin and Jonathan Boyarin, "Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Identity"