Religion and the Domestication of Dissent

Uskonnontutkija Russell McClutcheonin kritiikki islamin toiseuttamisesta 9/11 jälkeen. 2015, pehmeäkantinen, 123 sivua. Uudenveroinen.

In its first edition, Religion and the Domestication of Dissent focused on the representations of Islam that circulated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks?representations that scholars, pundits, and politicians alike used either to essentialize and demonize it or, instead, to isolate specific aspects as apolitical and thus tolerable faith. This little book’s larger thesis therefore argued for how the classifications that we routinely use to identify and thereby negotiate our social worlds?notably such categories as “religion” or “faith”?are explicitly political.

Russell T. McCutcheon is University Research Professor and, for 18 years, was the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, USA. His publications include a variety of works on the history of the field, the everyday effects of the category “religion,” along with a number of practical resources for scholars, teachers, and students.