7. Historicizing the Elephant in the Room

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction: On Fabricating Religion 1
5. 1. The Category “Religion” in Recent Publications: Twenty Years Later 11
6. 2. “It’s (Not) Easy if You Try:” The Challenge to Imagine No Religion 33
7. 3. A Question (Still) Worth Asking about The Religions of Man 43
8. 4. “Man is the Measure of All Things:” On The Fabrication of Oriental Religions by European History of Religions 55
9. 5. Identifying the Meaning and End of Scholarship: What’s at Stake in Muslim Identities 79
10. 6. Of Concepts and Entities: Varieties of Critical Scholarship 95
11. 7. Historicizing the Elephant in the Room 121
12. 8. The Magic of the Melancholy: Shifting Gears in the Study of Religion 141
13. 9. Fanfare for the Common e.g.: On the Strategic Use of the Mundane 161
14. Author Index 181
15. Subject Index 185