{"product_id":"manufacturing-religion-the-discourse-on-sui-generis-religion-and-the-politics-of-nostalgia-paperback","title":"Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRussell T. McCutcheon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1997, \u003cem\u003eManufacturing Religion\u003c\/em\u003e was a controversial book because it critiqued a widely adopted style of scholarship that presumes that religion is utterly unique, inexplicable, and therefore able only to be interpreted by privileged scholars. Claiming religion to be \u003cem\u003esui generis\u003c\/em\u003e (or self-caused), this approach has undisclosed practical effects--institutional and geo-political--at a variety of sites, from the types of textbooks commonly used in introductory classes to the way that political events are often represented in the mass media. Russell McCutcheon documented the ubiquity of this approach and showed how harmful it was \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUpdating its wide-ranging evidence and adding new chapters, this new edition demonstrates the impact of this critique while showing how little the field has generally moved in the past thirty years.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussell T. McCutcheon earned his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and is now an honorary life member of the International Association for the History of Religions. Beginning in 2001, he was the Department Chair at the University of Alabama, a role that he played for 18 years. His many publications on the history of the field and the practical effects of the category religion in liberal democracies, along with a number of resources created specifically for teachers and students, are widely used in the field today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47652979671261,"sku":"9780197818817","price":61.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/1s739d7xE-9780197818817.webp?v=1773891831","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/manufacturing-religion-the-discourse-on-sui-generis-religion-and-the-politics-of-nostalgia-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}