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Article: Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia.
- Article from:
- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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By Russell T. McCutcheon.
Oxford University Press. 249 pp. $32.
The academic study of religion is
in something of a theoretical muddle
at the moment. In its early days
it defined itself mostly by contrast
with theology, presenting itself as