In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most p

The modern Science of the History of Religion has attained conclusions which already possess an air of being firmly established. These conclusions may be briefl

This volume combines the perspective of religion as a constructed category of modernity with the analytic focus and empirical grounding of institutional social

According to Hagenston, Jesus had such a hard edge when it came to Gentiles that he coined his own unflattering term for them-dogs. He limited what he was offer

The revised essays collected here, four of which are published for the first time, continue a longstanding argument made by McCutcheon and others: that the stud