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- catalog abstract ""This book argues that "religion" is not a genuine analytical category since it does no useful work in helping us to understand the world we live in. While it appears to have something important and meaningful to say about societies and cultures and personal experiences, when one looks at its actual use in a wide spectrum of descriptive and analytical contexts it becomes clear that so much is included in the term that it becomes indistinguishable from "culture." By failing to specify any distinctive kind of experience or social institution, it inhibits and hinders the flow of intellectual development in the humanities."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11932063.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This book argues that "religion" is not a genuine analytical category since it does no useful work in helping us to understand the world we live in. While it appears to have something important and meaningful to say about societies and cultures and personal experiences, when one looks at its actual use in a wide spectrum of descriptive and analytical contexts it becomes clear that so much is included in the term that it becomes indistinguishable from "culture." By failing to specify any distinctive kind of experience or social institution, it inhibits and hinders the flow of intellectual development in the humanities."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-267) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. I. Religious Studies as an Ideology. 1. Religion, Religions, and World Religions: Religious Studies -- A Critique. 2. Comparative Religion: The Founding Fathers and the Theological Legacy. 3. Ninian Smart and the Phenomenology of Religion. 4. Religion, Family Resemblances, and the Use Context. 5. Religions, Quasi Religions, and Secular Ideologies -- pt. II. Religion and India. 6. Buddhism in India: Ritual, Politics, and Soteriology. 7. Hinduism -- pt. III. Religion and Japan. 8. Problems of the Category 'Religion' in Japan. 9. Constructing a Collective Identity. 10. Bowing to the Taxman -- pt. IV. Problems With the Category 'Culture'. 11. Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, and Cultural Anthropology.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 276 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195120728 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "200/.7/2 21".
- catalog subject "BL41 .F56 2000".
- catalog subject "Religion Methodology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Religious Studies as an Ideology. 1. Religion, Religions, and World Religions: Religious Studies -- A Critique. 2. Comparative Religion: The Founding Fathers and the Theological Legacy. 3. Ninian Smart and the Phenomenology of Religion. 4. Religion, Family Resemblances, and the Use Context. 5. Religions, Quasi Religions, and Secular Ideologies -- pt. II. Religion and India. 6. Buddhism in India: Ritual, Politics, and Soteriology. 7. Hinduism -- pt. III. Religion and Japan. 8. Problems of the Category 'Religion' in Japan. 9. Constructing a Collective Identity. 10. Bowing to the Taxman -- pt. IV. Problems With the Category 'Culture'. 11. Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, and Cultural Anthropology.".
- catalog title "The ideology of religious studies / Timothy Fitzgerald.".
- catalog type "text".