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Who owns religion? : scholars and their publics in the late twentieth century / Laurie L. Patton.

By: Patton, Laurie L, 1961- [author.]Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019Description: 332 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226649344; 9780226675985Subject(s): Religion -- Study and teaching | Religion and culture | Religion and sociologyDDC classification: 306.6
Contents:
Introduction : some reasons for this book -- I. Scandals, publics and the recent study of religion -- Scandalous controversies and public spaces -- Religions, audiences, adn the idea of the public sphere -- The 1990s : cultural recognition, internet utopias, and postcolonial identities -- Ancestors' publics -- II. Case studies -- Mother earth : the near impossibility of a public -- The construction of religious boundaries : competing public histories -- Songs of wisdom and circles of dance : an emerging global public -- The illegitimacy of Jesus : stron gpubics in conflict -- God's phallus : the refusal of public engagement -- Kali's child : the challenge of secret publics -- III. New publics, new possibilities -- Scholars, foolish wisdom, and dewlling in the space between.
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Introduction : some reasons for this book -- I. Scandals, publics and the recent study of religion -- Scandalous controversies and public spaces -- Religions, audiences, adn the idea of the public sphere -- The 1990s : cultural recognition, internet utopias, and postcolonial identities -- Ancestors' publics -- II. Case studies -- Mother earth : the near impossibility of a public -- The construction of religious boundaries : competing public histories -- Songs of wisdom and circles of dance : an emerging global public -- The illegitimacy of Jesus : stron gpubics in conflict -- God's phallus : the refusal of public engagement -- Kali's child : the challenge of secret publics -- III. New publics, new possibilities -- Scholars, foolish wisdom, and dewlling in the space between.

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